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South en · PROPN

Etymology

By proprialization from south.

Meanings

1. (US, countable, uncountable) Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie. ▸ The Southern United States.
   • I should add a story, you know in the South at that time, Governor Barnett was sort of known as a bit of a dim bulb. And two years before, during the presidential campaign, one of the flashpoints in the debates that fall involved two Nationalist Chinese islands just off the coast of China: Quemoy and Matsu. And right after this argument erupted in the campaign, Ross Barnett was out politicking one day and the reporters asked him, "Governor, what about Quemoy and Matsu?" And he looked around sort of lost and said to one of his aides, "Them those two fellers I put on the Fishing and Game Commission last year?" 2012, 42:09 from the start, in Listening In: JFK's Secret Tapes, Thomas Oliphant (actor), John F. Kennedy Library Foundation:
   • Tohti described a situation then current in Yeyiq Yezisi (Yeyike) township which is reminiscent of share-cropping in the post-bellum American south. [2007, James A. Millward, Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang, London: Hurst & Company, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 365:
   • Holonyms: United States, United States of America, U.S., US, USA < North America < Earth < Solar System < Orion Arm < Milky Way < Local Group < Virgo Supercluster < Laniakea < Universe
   • Meronyms: Upper South, Deep South, Old South, Southeast
   • In the discussions we had sitting around church basements, I learned that, despite the obvious differences in our environments, these kids were more like me than I ever could have imagined. They also knew more about what was happening in the civil rights movement in the South. I had only vaguely heard of Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King, but these discussions sparked my interest. 2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “University of Life”, in Living History, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 22–23:
   • Of course, living in the South was never an option—the main problem being they have too much respect for authority; they're soldier-sniffers and cop lovers. I don't respect that, and I could never live with it. There's also way too much religion in the South to be consistent with good mental health. 1997, George Carlin, “WELL, YA GOTTA LIVE SOMEPLACE”, in Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 16:
   • Many sincere white people in the South privately oppose segregation and discrimination, but they are apprehensive lest they be publicly condemned. 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., “Transformed Nonconformist”, in Strength to Love, New York: Pocket Books, published 1964, →OCLC, page 13:
   • Just when the blacks had had their hopes for equality and justice raised, after centuries of misery and despair, they awoke one morning to discover that their future was in the hands of a President born in the South. 1971, Lyndon B. Johnson, “"I feel like I have already been here a year"”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18:
2. (countable, uncountable) Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie. ▸ Southern England.
   • Holonyms: England < Great Britain, Britain < United Kingdom, UK < Earth, World < Solar System < Orion Arm < Milky Way < Local Group < Virgo Supercluster < Laniakea < Universe
3. (India, countable, uncountable) Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie. ▸ The southern states of India.
4. (countable, uncountable) Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie. ▸ The Global South.
5. (UK, countable, uncountable) Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie. ▸ Antarctica.
   • Over three weeks in 2019, Kaefer spent time at three English-speaking Antarctic stations observing and gathering data from workers based on what the US station refers to as “The Ice”, or the British call the “South”. 2024 June 20, Eva Corlett, “Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang”, in The Guardian:
6. (countable, uncountable) A surname.
7. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, informal, qualifier:Durham University, uncountable) Ellipsis of South College, Durham.
   alt of Durham
   alt of South College

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antonym(s) of

Deriveds

Southern · Global South · Sunny South · Southron · Southerner

Relateds

East · North · Southwest · Northwest · Southeast · Northwest · Northwest · East · Southwest · Southwest · Northwest · Northeast · Northwest · East · North · Northeast · Southeast · West · North · Northeast · Southwest · Southeast · North · Southwest · Southeast · north country · Midlands · West · East · North · East · West · West · Southeast · West · Northeast · Northeast · West Country

Synonyms

South India · Southland · Dixie · American South · Dixieland

Translations (17)

de Südstaaten (the southern states of the United States) · sh jug (The southern part of any region) · pl Południe (The Global South) · ta தென் (The southern part of any region) · cmn 全球南方 (The Global South) · ga theas (The southern part of any region) · ta உலகளாவிய தெற்கு (The Global South) · ta உலகளாவிய தெற்கு நாடுகள் (The Global South) · de Süden (The southern part of any region) · sh Jug (The Global South) · nl zuiden (The southern part of any region) · pl Południe (The southern part of any region) · af suide (The southern part of any region) · pl Południe (the southern states of the United States) · nl Zuiden (The Global South) · cmn 南 (The southern part of any region) · ta தெற்கு (The southern part of any region)

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