Crossword clues for southerner
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Southerner \South"ern*er\, n. An inhabitant or native of the south, esp. of the Southern States of North America; opposed to Northerner.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1817, American English, from southern. Contrasted with Yankee by 1828.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A native or inhabitant of the south of a region (or of the world as a whole), such as the United Kingdom. 2 (alternative case form of Southerner nodot=1 English) (gloss: someone from one of the southeastern United States).
Wikipedia
Southerner or The Southerner can refer to:
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Southern (country subdivision), someone from a southern state or country
- A resident of the Southern United States, usually people who identify themselves as such
- Lhotshampas, also called Southerners, ethnically Nepalese residents of southern Bhutan
- Southerners (Korean political faction) of the Joseon Period in Korea, resulting from a split in 1590 of the Easterners (Korean political faction)
The Southerner was a passenger express train in New Zealand's South Island between Christchurch and Invercargill via Dunedin along the Main South Line that ran from Tuesday, 1 December 1970 to Sunday, 10 February 2002. It was one of the premier passenger trains in New Zealand and its existence made Invercargill the southernmost passenger station in the world.
Southerner was a marine outside broadcast unit operated by Southern Television in the United Kingdom from the mid-1960s.
The Southerner was a streamlined passenger train operated by the Southern Railway in the United States between New York City and New Orleans, Louisiana. It operated from 1941 to 1970.
Usage examples of "southerner".
Chamberlain later wrote that their conversation simply broke down, with the Southerner finally announcing that Chamberlain could never understand how the South felt.
Linked to this bellicose nationalism was a return to pre-Civil War patterns in which Southerners were the most ardent proponents of American imperial expansion.
As part of the reconsolidation of America as a White Herrenvolk democracy, Northerners joined with Southerners in denouncing the period of Radical Reconstruction as a disastrous mistake and the Blacks as unfit for government.
Afterward, when Patrick Henry declined for reasons of health, Adams chose another southerner, the Federalist governor of North Carolina, William Davie.
His voice at once announced that he was a Southerner, and from his fine stature, I thought he must be one of those tall mountaineers from the Alleghanian Ridge in Virginia.
Ross Barnett will be inscribed in the pages of history with Lee, Jackson and Jeff Davis as a great Southerner.
His intent, let us say, was to develop his children into good Southerners of the North Carolinian persuasion.
He had persuaded the Istrian woman to cut it for him, when it became clear that the southerners rarely wore their hair long, let alone in braids with shells and rags bound into it.
It might just be that such a long exposure to Istrian life was proving too rich for his palate, for the Master had never bothered to teach him the use of spices or those combinations of herbs with which the southerners flavored their food when he had taught him the basics of the culinary arts.
That as Louisianians, as Southerners, as Americans, we proudly claim our share in the fame of Lee as an inheritance rightfully belonging to us, and endowed with which we shall piously cherish, though all calamities should rain upon us, true poverty--the poverty indeed that abases and starves the spirit can never approach us with its noisome breath and withering look.
He questioned the townspeople who treated him in the courteous but offhanded way that Southerners have always regarded strangers.
By 1968, Richard Nixon and George Wallace, running for President as an independent, would both outpoll Humphrey in the South, and since then, the only Democrats to win the White House were two southerners, Jimmy Carter and I.
It became my credo, the central theme of my life, but if it had not been for the intolerance and pigheadedness I exhibited with such grandiosity in those years and the weird sideburns and holier-than-thou attitude that I paraded around with, I would have entered into my maturity as uninterested in the world of ideas as any other Southerner.
Blue-coated Yankees would be rampaging all across Virginia, and John Pope, the wretched John Pope who so passionately hated Southerners, would be the tyrant of all he surveyed.
It would never do for the Union troops to wallop Southerners on Southern turf unless it was a precise reenactment of an actual battle won by the Yankees.