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  • adjective from or pertaining to the southern part of any region
  • adjective from or pertaining to the South, the south-eastern states of the United States, or to the inhabitants or culture of that region.

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Examples

  • Analysts say the expected separation of the south will create new political uncertainty and potential violence in areas with many residents who may feel they would also like to join the new southern country, including in Southern and North Kordofan, White Nile and South Darfur.

    Sudan's Blue Nile, Southern Kordofan Face Own Consultations 2011

  • He was in Missouri tonight, the right-to-life movement in southern Missouri, these Southern states, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee.

    CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2008 2008

  • Numerous studies and many southern Indiana economic development organizations, including the Chamber of Commerce, Southern 7 Workforce Investment Board and Southern Indiana Economic Development Council, have identified broadband connections to the world wide web as essential for economic development.

    A victory, for this year Randy Smith 2005

  • Numerous studies and many southern Indiana economic development organizations, including the Chamber of Commerce, Southern 7 Workforce Investment Board and Southern Indiana Economic Development Council, have identified broadband connections to the world wide web as essential for economic development.

    Archive 2005-02-13 Randy Smith 2005

  • SERWER: Hey Bill, in a way, Ohio is like a little America, you know, it's a microcosm, you've got northern industrial areas like Cleveland and then the southern part of the state, along Kentucky's actually very sort of Southern and rural.

    CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2004 2004

  • The countries of southern Africa had a responsibilty to make a contribution towards a resolution of the problem of Zaire, Southern

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • And through this Committee all of us who are involved in non-governmental organisations working on southern Africa would like to pay a special tribute to Canon Collins and the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa for the work that they have done - but particularly to Canon Collins who will be 75 years old this month and indeed carries on his work for the people of South

    STATEMENT AT THE MEETING OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE AGAINST APARTHEID 1980

  • In view of the situation in southern Africa as a whole, it is pertinent to suggest that a programme of sanctions covering South Africa, Portugal and Southern

    APARTHEID: THE INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS 1973

  • The country called HELLAS by the Helle'nes, its native inhabitants, and known to us by the name of Greece, forms the southern part of the most easterly of the three great peninsulas of Southern

    Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson

  • The velvety darkness of a southern night, with its sense of rich, luscious, breathing intensity, lay over that romantic spot in Southern

    The Rhodesian Gertrude Page 1897

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