old south

1. 1.

   the South of the United States before the American Civil War

   BroaderSouth

Questions about old south

What does old south mean?

old south means "the South of the United States before the American Civil War".

Is old south a common word?

old south is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.