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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
southernmost
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
tip
▪ We were to bomb the seaplane base at Hornum on the southernmost tip of the island.
▪ From here, the southernmost tip of Moskenes Penninsula, we took some fine walks.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Tierra del Fuego is the southernmost tip of South America.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ From here, the southernmost tip of Moskenes Penninsula, we took some fine walks.
▪ Impediments to enforcement also increased when even the southernmost Creek tribes rejected the idea that the treaty applied to the Seminoles.
▪ Our goal was to get as close as possible to LeConte Glacier, the southernmost active tidewater glacier in the Northern Hemisphere.
▪ The ring is broken only at its southernmost point by the Straits of Lothern.
▪ The river Sol is the southernmost of the Empire's rivers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Southernmost

Southernmost \South"ern*most`\, a. Farthest south.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
southernmost

1725, from southern + -most.

Wiktionary
southernmost

a. Farthest south.

WordNet
southernmost

adj. situated farthest south; "Key West is the southernmost city in the United States" [syn: southmost]

Usage examples of "southernmost".

Sir Ehdt had constructed a huge sand-table model of the western borders of Vawn, with southernmost Skaht to the north and northernmost Baikuh to the south.

High on the list is the southernmost chain of islands known as the Keys, where I live, and where only one road runs the length of the archipelago.

Barlow alone climbed to the summit of the southernmost of the treble peaks of the island.

He gave the signal, pointed to the southernmost road, then spurred his mount on.

On that same day, that particular lake, the southernmost of the three, had its name changed from Dellon-lune to Redwaters.

Hole, the normally unassuming and fiercely independent towns on the southernmost lake, Redwaters, had boldly demanded compensation from Bryn Shander and Termalaine.

Ten-Towns, but they could hear the sounds of an encampment above the southernmost sections of their huge complex.

No town or harbor was visible along this stretch of lonely coast between Khawarism, the southernmost outpost of the Turanian kingdom, and its capital of Aghrapur.

Anguilla grass scattered by blimpbots across the southernmost zone of the Aldrin Plains had blossomed to produce a great deluge of uniform light green vegetation resembling a quiescent sea that was slowly progressing northward.

Starflyer had razed to the ground, ending with Zeefield, the southernmost settlement along Highway One.

The time to ride to Jakaafra is certainly understandable, since Geliendra is on the southernmost point of the diamond walls that surround the Forest, and Jakaafra above the northernmost.

He looks to the southeast, but there the wall seems to end less than a kay away, a spot marked by the fifty-cubit-high granite structure that stands a quarter kay back from the wall-the southernmost chaos tower.

So he was pleased to be able to ride the big chestnut out beyond the southernmost part of Fairhaven to where the sewers ended-at the southeastern side of Fairhaven, beyond and to the east of the southern gates.

Cerryl stood on the southernmost of the refurbished piers, where the wind blew out of the west, nearly straight into his face, disarranging his thin brown hair and surrounding him with the metallic odor of river, mud, and the hint of rotten vegetation.

The southernmost of the series covers a roughly circular area about 40 feet in diameter.