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southern

[suhth-ern] / ˈsʌð ərn /


ADJECTIVE
pertaining to the south
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She soon was back in Yowlumni territory, in the southern Sierra, where she spent several weeks.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

On Sunday, Iran hit the Neot Hovav industrial zone in southern Israel, which houses several factories.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Yellow warnings for wind covered all of Scotland on Saturday, while an amber warning was issued by the Met Office for southern Scotland, northern England and Wales.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

The model suggests that over the next 80 years, the Arctic could experience up to 25% more runoff, 30% more subsurface flow, and increasing dryness in southern areas.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

During the first three decades after the Treaty of Paris was signed, allied Indigenous nations in the Ohio Country and the southern states were involved in several struggles to resist settler encroachment.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz