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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Southern \South"ern\, n.
A Southerner. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Southern \South"ern\ (?; 277), a. [AS. s??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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
southern
adj 1: 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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