Adjective southern has 4 senses
- southern - in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line; "southern hospitality"; "southern cooking"; "southern plantations"
Antonyms: northern, blue, Union, Federal, Yankee
- southerly, southern - situated in or oriented toward the south; "a southern exposure"; "took a southerly course"
Antonym: north (indirect, via south)
- southern - situated in or coming from regions of the south; "the southern hemisphere"; "southern constellations"
Antonyms: northern, boreal, circumboreal, north-central, septrional
- southerly, southern - from the south; used especially of wind; "a hot south wind"; "southern breezes"; "the winds are southerly"
Antonym: north (indirect, via south)
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