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south + -ern

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Adjective

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Positive
southern

Comparative
more southern

Superlative
most southern

  1. A southern place, accent, person, etc. is in, from, or about the south.
    The money helps everyone from a grocer in southern Lebanon to a farmer in Tajikistan.
    My grandmother moved to southern California to live with my aunt.
    Her soft, southern accent reminded him of warm summer nights.
    Recently, elephants have done well in southern Africa.
    She remembered a summer afternoon swimming off the family compound at the southern tip of Taiwan.
    Each year, millions of Mexicans cross that southern border from Mexico into the United States.
    Dire Dawa is located on the southern edge of the Rift Valley at the foot of the Harrar Mountains.
    Jupiter lies fairly low in the southern sky after dusk.

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