southern
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English southerne, sothern, sutherne, from Old English sūþerne (“southern, southerly, coming from the south; of southern make”), from Proto-Germanic *sunþrōnijaz (“southern”), from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂un-, *sh₂wen-, r/n-stem alternation of *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”). Cognate with Scots southron, sudron (“southern”), Old Frisian sūthern, sūdern (“southern”), Middle Low German sūdern (“southern”), Middle High German sundern (“southern”), Icelandic suðrænn (“southern, tropical”).
By surface analysis, south + -ern.
Inflected forms:
form: more southern
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most southern
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: southernmost
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: southerns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, facing, situated in, or related to the south.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to a southern region, especially Southern Europe or the southern United States.
pos: adj
examples: The southern climate.
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
A group of Thai researchers found the spider during an expedition to Phang-Nga province in southern Thailand to research the diversity and distribution of tarantulas in the country.
gloss: Of a wind: blowing from the south; southerly.
pos: adj
gloss: Synonym of southerner.
pos: noun
examples: Force prevails most with the northerns, reason with the inhabitants of a temperate or middle climate, superstition with the southerns; thus astrology, magic, and all mysterious sciences have come from the Chaldeans and Egyptians.
The peace which the French leaguers made soon after with Louis XL, for money and offices, did not satisfy the southerns, whose views in this patriotic war had been wholly different.
This last formed a strong contrast, by its simplicity and its austere bearing, with the old army of Italy, enriched in the beautiful plains which it had conquered, and composed of brave, fiery, and intemperate Southerns.
Then in 1835 it (negatively) remarked 'a national tone and feeling [. . .] with which we southerns do not wholly sympathize'.
Synonyms: southerly
austral
meridional
Antonyms: northern
boreal
septentrional
Derived words: Great Southern
nonsouthern
paleosouthern
southern African frilled shark
Southern Alps
southern arrowwood
Southern Athabaskan
southern banjo frog
southern beech
southern belle
southern black tit
southern blue gum
southern bottlenose whale
Southern brawl
southern brown bandicoot
southern caracara
southern cassowary
southern common cuscus
southern crested caracara
Southern Cross
southern cypress pine
Southern Denmark
Southern Downs
southern elephant seal
southern fairy
Southern Federal District
southern flying squirrel
Southern Grampians
southern grasshopper mouse
southern green stink bug
southern hairy-nosed wombat
southern hemisphere
Southern Highlands
southernification
southernisation
southernise
southernish
southernism
southernist
southernization
southernize
southern king crab
southern lady's slipper
southern lamprey
southern lapwing
Southern Leyte
southern lights
southern litter skink
southernly
southern magnolia
southern mahogany
southern masked weaver
Southern Midlands
Southern Mongolia
southernmost
southernness
Southern Ocean
southern pig-tailed macaque
Southern Region
Southern Rhodesia
southern school whiting
southern screamer
southern sennet
southern solstice
southern storm petrel
southern sugar maple
southern sushi
Southern Tablelands
southern tigrina
southern topeyed lamprey
Southern Tungusic
Southern Unionist
Southern Uplands
southern viscacha
southern vole
southernwood
southern woodland violet
southernwort
southern yellow pine
unsouthern
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: jugor
lang: Arabic
word: جَنُوبِيّ
roman: janūbiyy
lang: Armenian
word: հարավային
roman: haravayin
lang: Azerbaijani
word: cənubi
lang: Azerbaijani
word: güney
lang: Basque
word: hegoaldeko
lang: Belarusian
word: паўднёвы
roman: pawdnjóvy
lang: Bengali
word: দক্ষিণ
roman: dokkhin
lang: Bulgarian
word: ю́жен
roman: júžen
lang: Burmese
word: တောင်
roman: taung
lang: Catalan
word: austral
lang: Catalan
word: meridional
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 南方
roman: nàm-fông
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 南
roman: nàm
lang: Chinese
word: 南方
roman: lâm-hong
lang: Chinese
word: 南
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 南方
roman: nánfāng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 南
roman: nán
lang: Czech
word: jižní
lang: Danish
word: sydlig
lang: Dutch
word: zuid
lang: Dutch
word: zuidelijk
lang: Egyptian
word: rsw-y:N21
roman: rsj
lang: Esperanto
word: suda
lang: Estonian
word: lõunamaine
lang: Estonian
word: lõuna-
lang: Faroese
word: syðri
lang: Finnish
word: eteläinen
lang: Finnish
word: etelä-
lang: French
word: austral
lang: French
word: méridional
lang: French
word: sud
lang: Georgian
word: სამხრეთული
roman: samxretuli
lang: Georgian
word: სამხრეთიდან
roman: samxretidan
lang: Georgian
word: სამხრეთის
roman: samxretis
lang: Georgian
word: სამხრეთისა
roman: samxretisa
lang: German
word: südlich
lang: German
word: Süd-
lang: Greek
word: νότιος
roman: nótios
lang: Ancient Greek
word: νοτερός
roman: noterós
lang: Hebrew
word: דְּרוֹמִי
roman: dromí
lang: Hindi
word: दक्षिणी
roman: dakṣiṇī
lang: Hungarian
word: déli
lang: Ido
word: australa
lang: Ido
word: sudala
lang: Ingrian
word: lounain
lang: Interlingua
word: meridional
lang: Interlingua
word: del sud
lang: Irish
word: deisceartach
lang: Italian
word: meridionale
lang: Japanese
word: 南
roman: minami
lang: Kazakh
word: оңтүстік
roman: oñtüstık
lang: Khmer
word: ខាងត្បូង
roman: khaang tboung
lang: Korean
word: 남쪽의
roman: namjjogui
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: başûrî
lang: Kyrgyz
word: түштүктүк
roman: tüştüktük
lang: Lao
word: ໃຕ້
roman: tai
lang: Latin
word: merīdiōnālis
lang: Latin
word: austrālis
lang: Latvian
word: dienvidu
lang: Lithuanian
word: pietinis
lang: Lithuanian
word: pietų
lang: Macedonian
word: јужен
roman: južen
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: søndre
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: sørlig
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: sydlig
lang: Occitan
word: austral
lang: Occitan
word: meridional
lang: Pashto
word: جنوبي
roman: janubi
lang: Pashto
word: سوهيلي
roman: sohayli
lang: Pashto
word: سويلي
roman: soeli
lang: Persian
word: جنوبی
roman: jonubi
lang: Piedmontese
word: meridional
lang: Polish
word: południowy
lang: Portuguese
word: do sul
lang: Portuguese
word: meridional
lang: Portuguese
word: austral
lang: Romanian
word: sudic
lang: Romanian
word: austral
lang: Romanian
word: meridional
lang: Russian
word: ю́жный
roman: júžnyj
lang: Scots
word: soothren
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: deas
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: a deas
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ју̏жнӣ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: jȕžnī
lang: Slovak
word: južný
lang: Slovene
word: južen
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: južny
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: połodniši
lang: Spanish
word: del sur
lang: Spanish
word: sureño
lang: Spanish
word: meridional
lang: Spanish
word: austral
lang: Swedish
word: södra
lang: Swedish
word: sydlig
lang: Tagalog
word: katimugan
lang: Tajik
word: ҷанубӣ
roman: janubi
lang: Tatar
word: көньяк
roman: könʹyaq
lang: Thai
word: ใต้
roman: dtâai
lang: Tocharian B
word: omotruññaiṣṣe
lang: Turkish
word: güney
lang: Turkish
word: güneyli
lang: Turkmen
word: günorta
lang: Ukrainian
word: півде́нний
roman: pivdénnyj
lang: Urdu
word: جُنُوبی
roman: junubī
lang: Uyghur
word: جەنۇبىي
roman: jenubiy
lang: Uzbek
word: janubiy
lang: Vietnamese
word: nam
lang: Volapük
word: sulüdik
lang: Welsh
word: deheuol
lang: Yiddish
word: דרומדיק
roman: doremdik