Loading page
say it: SUHTH-urn
southern is an adjective meaning "in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line". It carries 4 recorded senses.
in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line
“southern hospitality”
“southern cooking”
“southern plantations”
situated in or oriented toward the south
“a southern exposure”
“took a southerly course”
situated in or coming from regions of the south
“the southern hemisphere”
“southern constellations”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for southern come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.