southern hemisphere

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   the hemisphere to the south of the equator

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Questions about southern hemisphere

What does southern hemisphere mean?

southern hemisphere means "the hemisphere to the south of the equator".

Is southern hemisphere a common word?

southern hemisphere is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.