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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
southern
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a southern/northern accent
▪ He spoke with a lovely soft southern accent.
eastern/southern etc extremity of sth
▪ the southern extremity of New Zealand
southern hemisphere
Southern Lights
the northern/southern etc boundary (=of an area or city)
▪ the southern boundary of San Francisco
the northern/southern etc edge (=the part of an area that is close to the point where the area ends)
▪ There’s a ridge of hills on the northern edge of the county.
the northern/southern half
▪ The northern half of the city is generally poorer.
the southern/eastern etc border
▪ They renewed their attacks on Ethiopia’s northern border.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
▪ There was growing concern over an estimated 780,000 people facing starvation in central and southern areas.
▪ Where in the southern area had there been an enemy powerful enough to require the use of our superior striking power?
▪ These will be heavy in some western areas at first, then spread to other central and southern areas for a time.
▪ As the southern areas build out, officials say they need to look at bolstering their fire and police services.
▪ Some southern areas managed the change to integrated schools without much difficulty; but many used every possible delaying tactic.
border
▪ The southern borders of the little Papal State now touched on the lands of the same family.
▪ With a peaceful and stable southern border, Begin felt free to concentrate on his northern front.
▪ What Buchanan is saying is that people who cross the southern border are enemies.
boundary
▪ In total some 4,200 metres of 33,000 volt and 11,000 volt power lines were re-routed along the southern boundary of the bypass.
▪ As an additional consequence, fugitive slaves would be free as soon as they crossed the southern boundary of the North.
▪ For non-mountaineers, the great feature of Knoydart is Loch Nevis, forming its southern boundary.
▪ Another, presumably later, inhumation cemetery lay in and around the southern boundary ditch at its Ryknild Street end.
city
▪ Knoxville, rare for a southern city in that it is mountainous, had few plantations and not much need for slaves.
▪ The eight were subsequently suspended from their duties and forbidden to leave the southern city of Sucre, the legal capital.
▪ Baltimore was more of a southern city than anything I had previously experienced.
▪ Finally the revolution in retailing that was embodied in Wal-Mart was invented in the suburbs of southern cities in the United States.
coast
▪ Nicephorus' fleet harried the accessible southern coasts in retribution, but made no firm gains.
▪ The docks were built where the deep water channel of the Humber touches the southern coast.
edge
▪ From the southern edge of this inland sea, it is only a short haul over the mountains to Los Angeles.
▪ It sat at the southern edge of San Salvador on land that had once held a garbage dump.
▪ In 1754, further burials were discovered during the rebuilding of Kate's Cabin at the southern edge of the extra-mural area.
▪ As we rounded the lake's southern edge and moved up to the eastern shore, a faint tinkle filled the air.
▪ The Lights of Lisbon at the southern edge of the Alfama district was one of his favourite places.
▪ Eight miles North-west from Oxford on the southern edge of the Cotswolds is Woodstock.
▪ After this, the path follows the southern edge of the estuary.
▪ And even from the mainland there appeared to be a distinctly vertiginous southern edge to the island.
end
▪ At the present time most of the alterations affecting the spit are confined to the southern end, where it is weakest.
▪ At the same time, the southern end of the court opens to the valley, giving a view of soft hills.
▪ Then catch the 79 Seatoller service from Keswick to take you to the southern end of Derwentwater.
▪ Baja California Sur, whose southern end includes the booming Los Cabos resort, was granted statehood in 1971.
▪ Two months ago rains flooded the Incomati river and laid waste to part of the southern end of the town.
▪ There are some places to know about between Oloron and the Col du Somport, at the valley's southern end.
▪ Later, as bronze was replaced by iron, the Golasecca culture arose at the southern end of Lake Maggiore.
▪ Tilly Whim was at the southern end.
half
▪ The first section to be built was the southern half.
▪ Within months, land prices in the southern half of the county tripled.
▪ The United States has 37,000 troops based in the southern half of the divided peninsula.
hemisphere
▪ In the southern hemisphere, however, few cemeteries can match La Recoleta in Buenos Aires.
▪ Had explorers come from the southern hemisphere, would maps appear upside down?
▪ Other diving birds, including ocean-going penguin species in the southern hemisphere, can also sit out storms.
▪ Once into the southern hemisphere the lines of latitude would become shorter and finally vanish at the south pole.
▪ In the southern hemisphere shadows travel anti-clockwise, at least as we see it.
▪ Those that evolved in the southern hemisphere, the marsupials, start to do this when their babies are very young indeed.
part
▪ The southern part is the best.
▪ What main differences are there between the northern and southern parts?
▪ Much confusion exists because quail are called partridge in the southern part of the United States.
▪ Optimism remains relatively higher in the North than in the southern part of the country.
▪ Hart has attracted some sharp criticism, especially from Otago and southern parts of the South Island.
▪ Macau hopes to become the service hub for the southern part of the Pearl River Delta.
▪ Mild and windy in the North, and feeling less cold in southern parts.
province
▪ Lemba is in the southern province of Katanga.
▪ The blast last week in remote Fanglin village, deep in the southern province of Jiangxi, was massive.
▪ Mujaheddin forces also attacked Qalat, the capital of the southern province of Zabul.
▪ The absence of reference to a division of the southern province, therefore, is not altogether surprising.
▪ Kabila, from the secessionist southern province of Katanga, studied in Paris and Belgrade before returning home in 1963.
▪ Why had he been so determined to create a second see of archiepiscopal rank in the southern province in the first place?
shore
▪ About 10 million years before that, another rift began along what is now the southern shore of the Arabian peninsula.
side
▪ Go east along the valley on the track around the southern side of Little Langdale Tarn.
▪ Compared with the heavily manned southern side, we saw remarkably few troops.
▪ Half an hour later he was crossing the footbridge from the northern to the southern side of the lines.
▪ She determined to avoid Bartholomew Close, so circled the block on the southern side.
▪ On the southern side, new horse-drawn lorries and vans were manufactured, the chargehand being C. Stapleton.
state
▪ But in the southern state of Kerala, where literacy exceeds 90%, the population growth is only 1.2% a year.
▪ The southern state of Bavaria requires all applicants for civil-service jobs to reveal whether they are Scientologists.
▪ By 1988, 2,908 blacks were elected to public office in the southern states.
▪ In the southern state of Tabasco, farmers blockaded 60 oil wells in February to demand compensation from Pemex.
▪ The southern state, São Paulo, was developed by the coffee boom of the late nineteenth century.
▪ Even after southern states returned to the Union, the military was still required to keep order.
▪ The southern states were dominated by racist politicians.
▪ Most of the recent party-switchers have come from southern states, where political realignment in the post-Reagan era has been most dramatic.
suburb
▪ Pierry Pierry, once a separate village, is now a continuation of the southern suburbs of Épernay.
▪ Praha Metro is also planning a fourth route linking the city centre and the southern suburbs.
▪ For the time being we reside with her parents in their small but practical house in the southern suburbs of Berlin.
tip
▪ Nature was given its due, but only at the southern tip of the marsh.
▪ It was hazy; they reached the southern tip of Nova Scotia.
▪ Pirates in fast boats have tried to board ships off Bab el-Mandeb in the Red Sea's southern tip.
▪ The boat floated off the southern tip of Manhattan.
▪ Westwards, the road follows a tortuous route towards Capo Spartivento on the southern tip of the island.
▪ The southern tip is designated as a national nature reserve.
town
▪ Similar protests took place in the southern town of Lund.
▪ Every small southern town seemed to have a Dew Drop bar or cafe.
▪ Lars Andreasson in the southern town of Vaxjo is offering to accept Telia shares in part exchange for his goods.
▪ Born dirt-poor in a southern town to religious fanatics, he was raised on the Bible and the taunts of others.
▪ On 8 May, yet another prestige modern building to display contemporary art opens, in the southern town of Nîmes.
▪ One Stasi officer shot himself in front of intruders in the southern town of Suhl.
▪ World Food Program in the southern town of Qabodian.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Southern Lights
the southern hemisphere
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ southern Mexico
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Five lived in the southern sector of the city.
▪ It was southern secession that precipitated emancipation and an end to federal support of slavery.
▪ It was April, and already the heavy southern sun dominated the sky.
▪ Once into the southern hemisphere the lines of latitude would become shorter and finally vanish at the south pole.
▪ Since the election, a series of demonstrations had taken place in the southern port city of Masan, an anti-Rhee stronghold.
▪ The southern authority area is dominated by a heavily populated conurbation.
▪ The rivers of the southern plains are dry much of their length, much of the year.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Southern

Southern \South"ern\ (?; 277), a. [AS. s[=u][eth]ern. See South.] Of or pertaining to the south; situated in, or proceeding from, the south; situated or proceeding toward the south.

Southern Cross (Astron.), a constellation of the southern hemisphere containing several bright stars so related in position as to resemble a cross.

Southern Fish (Astron.), a constelation of the southern hemisphere ( Piscis Australis) containing the bright star Fomalhaut.

Southern States (U.S. Hist. & Geog.), the States of the American Union lying south of Pennsylvania and the Ohio River, with Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Before the Civil War, Missouri also, being a slave State, was classed as one of the Southern States.

Southern

Southern \South"ern\, n. A Southerner. [R.]

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
southern

Old English suðerne, from suð "south" (see south) + -erne, suffix denoting direction. A common Germanic compound (Old Frisian suthern, Old Norse suðroenn, Old High German sundroni). The constellation Southern Cross so called in English by 1756.

Wiktionary
southern

a. 1 Of, facing, situated in, or related to the south. 2 Of or pertaining to a southern region, especially Southern Europe or the southern United States.

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WordNet
southern

  1. adj. in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line; "southern hospitality"; "southern cooking"; "southern plantations" [ant: northern]

  2. situated in or oriented toward the south; "a southern exposure"; "took a southerly course" [syn: southerly]

  3. situated in or coming from regions of the south; "the southern hemisphere"; "southern constellations" [ant: northern]

  4. from the south; used especially of wind; "a hot south wind"; "southern breezes"; "the winds are southerly" [syn: southerly]

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Wikipedia
Southern (Govia Thameslink Railway)

Southern is the brand name used by the Govia Thameslink Railway train operating company on the Southern routes of the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise. It is a subsidiary of Govia, a joint venture between transport groups Go-Ahead and Keolis, and operated the South Central rail franchise since August 2001 and the Gatwick Express service since June 2008.

On 26 July 2015, the franchisee was subsumed into Govia Thameslink Railway, but the existing Southern and Gatwick Express brand identities have been retained alongside those of Thameslink and Great Northern.

Southern operates the majority of commuter services from its Central London terminals at London Bridge and London Victoria to South London and Sussex as well as regional services in parts of Hampshire, Kent and Surrey. It also provides services between Milton Keynes and Croydon via the West London Line.

Major destinations served include Banstead, Beckenham Junction, Epsom Downs, Epsom, Leatherhead, East Croydon, Mitcham Junction, Sutton, East Grinstead, Uckfield, Caterham, Tattenham Corner, Redhill, , Crawley, Horsham, Littlehampton, , Bognor Regis, Southampton, Portsmouth, Brighton, Eastbourne and Ore.

It also operates services from Brighton to Ashford, Brighton to Seaford, Brighton to Southampton and South Croydon to Milton Keynes.

Southern

The name Southern may refer to:

  • Southern (surname)
Southern (country subdivision)

Many country subdivisions are named South or Southern, due to their location in their country. This lists all of the different types.

Main lists:
  • Southern District (disambiguation)
  • Southern Province (disambiguation)
  • Southern Region (disambiguation)
Other:
  • Southern Governorate, Bahrain
  • Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region, Ethiopia
  • Sud Department, Haiti
  • South Governorate, Lebanon
  • Southern Federal District, Russia
  • Southern Thailand

Category:Etymologies of names of country subdivisions

Southern (surname)

Southern is a surname which may refer to:

  • Caleb Southern, American music producer
  • Edwin Southern, molecular biologist
  • Eileen Southern, American musicologist
  • Jeri Southern, American jazz pianist and singer
  • Keith Southern, English association football player for Blackpool F.C.
  • Lauren Southern, former candidate for the Libertarian Party of Canada
  • Richard Southern (theatre designer) (1903–1989), British theatre designer
  • R. W. Southern (1912–2001), British medieval historian
  • Sarah Southern, British businesswoman and former Conservative Party official
  • Steve Southern, Australian professional rugby player
  • Terry Southern, American writer
Southern (band)

Southern are a brother and sister duo from Belfast, Northern Ireland, playing a mixture of blues, alternative rock and pop. Music became Thom's sole focus from the age of 16, when he started busking on the streets of Belfast. Lucy joined him a few years later and the two set out to make their mark on their home town. The band was championed by BBC Radio Ulster's Gerry Anderson who described them as "the most promising singer/songwriters in Ireland today."

Thom & Lucy were signed to London-based record label, , in 2013 and were immediately picked up as The Guardian's New Band of the Day. Southern have since gone on to support Bastille, Jake Bugg, and Catfish and the Bottlemen.

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Usage examples of "southern".

In the Southern States it is a universal accomplishment, and children are taught to ride as well as to walk.

Sandy told me about a doctor down in southern California with an allergy to shellfish who recently died from anaphylaxis.

Rear Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, was assigned Jaluit and Mili in the southern Marshalls and Makin in the northern Gilberts.

If we do not change by either adopting an assimilationist program or insisting on metered and legal immigration, or both, we shall soon see a culture in southern and central California that really is a hybrid civilization, a zona libre not unlike what already exists in parts of inner Los Angeles and many rural California towns such as Orange Cove, Mendota, Malaga and Parlier.

Lingering monsoons had flooded the lowlands of the Peninsula and piled the snowdrifts high round about the Tower of the Archimage on the southern slope of Mount Brom.

A Styphon archpriest, one Zothnes, had arrived in Sask Town, with a train of wagons as big as the one taken by Harmakros in southern Nostor.

Bright, who had preceded us and stood in the midst like a General of Division, ordering autocratically and issuing commands for fresh supplies, as if he was going to banquet the southern district en musse.

The Fuwalda, a barkentine of about one hundred tons, was a vessel of the type often seen in coastwise trade in the far southern Atlantic, their crews composed of the offscourings of the sea--unhanged murderers and cutthroats of every race and every nation.

We have already marked out the two capes in the Southern hemisphere for three-hourly observations: they must doubtless possess very peculiar barometric characters, stretching as they do into the vast area of the Southern Ocean.

At present we know but little of the barometric movements in the Southern hemisphere, and every addition to our knowledge in this respect will open the way to more important conclusions.

Even in the southern, irrigated part of the country there are notable differences between the tribes along the Tigris, subject to Iranian influences, and those of the Euphrates, whose historic links are with the Arab beduin tribes of the desert.

On the other hand, there were Republicans in that Body who sturdily met the bluster of the Southern Fire-eaters with frank and courageous words expressing their full convictions on the situation and their belief that Concessions could not be made and that Compromises were mere waste paper.

Jeremy Bentham, appeared under the editorship of Sir John Bowring and Henry Southern.

When she had been a teenager, she and the rest of the family had always thought of Bret as simply the finest quarterback in the history of Southern college football, but Jess had long since dismissed that as family prejudice.

Prince of Melito, the Marquess of Burgrave, Vespasian Gonzaga, John Medicis, Amadas of Savoy, in short, the illegitimate sons of all the southern princes, having no lands of their own, were coming to find that necessary of life in this pleasant little wheat-garden.