southern

[suhth-ern] / ˈsʌð ərn /

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in the south adj.
pertaining to the south adj.

ADJECTIVE

in the south

Synonyms

WEAK

austral from the south meridional of the south southerly toward the south

Antonyms

WEAK

northern

ADJECTIVE

pertaining to the south

Synonyms

WEAK

austral meridional midi southerly

Antonyms

WEAK

northern

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southern

At the Claude Monet school in southern Paris, 53-year-old Anya was looking for her son.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Customs and Border Protection for hundreds of autonomous surveillance towers along the southern border.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

To visit “Collection and Translation” at the Fralin is to look with a lover’s gaze, to see in the world of southern France a promise and a future for a new nation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Eskdalemuir, where Trudi works, is a remote village in southern Scotland with about 250 residents.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Each bench bore the name of an Osage family, and as I walked around to the southern side of the pavilion, I found the one I was looking for: “Burkhart.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann