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southern meaning

EN[ˈsʌðə(r)n]
US
WSouthern
  • The name Southern may refer to: Southern (surname)
  • AdjectiveCOMmore southernSUPmost southernSUF-ern
    1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the south.
      1. Of or pertaining to a southern region, especially Southern Europe or the southern United States.
        1. 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.
      2. Of a wind: blowing from the south; southerly.
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        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • There was a musician on tabla and tamboura, Ed Feldman, a reminder that Ms. Coltrane made music for Vedic meditation for about half her life, eventually founding an ashram in Southern California.
          • The mammalian community of the summital zone is typical of the dry southern portion of the island [21 ].
          • Another senate talkathon shaped up today as southern solons fashioned a vocal onslaught against new anti-lynching legislation.

      Meaning of southern for the defined word.

      Grammatically, this word "southern" is an adjective, more specifically, an adjectives ending in -en. It's also a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Adjectives
          • Adjectives ending in -en
          • Morphemes
            • Suffixes
              • Words by suffix
                • Words suffixed with -en
                  • Adjectives ending in -en
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          1. en southernmost
          2. en southerner
          3. en southernly
          4. en southernise
          5. en southernish
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