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Southern

63 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. Southern (noun)
  2. southern (adjective)
  3. southern armyworm (noun)
  4. southern bacterial wilt (noun)
  5. southern balsam fir (noun)
  6. Southern Baptist (noun)
  7. southern black haw (noun)
  8. southern blight (noun)
  9. Southern blot (noun)
  10. southern blue gum (noun)
  11. Southern bright (noun)
  12. southern buckthorn (noun)
  13. Southern Buddhism (noun)
  14. southern cabbage butterfly (noun)
  15. southern canary grass (noun)
  16. southern cattle fever (noun)
  17. Southern Colonial (noun)
  18. southern corn rootworm (noun)
  19. southern cornstalk borer (noun)
  20. southern crabapple (noun)
  21. Southern Cross (noun)
  22. Southern Cult (noun)
  23. southern cypress (noun)
  24. southern dewberry (noun)
  25. Southern English (noun)
  26. southern flounder (noun)
  27. southern fox grape (noun)
  28. southern-fried (adjective)
  29. southern green stink bug (noun)
  30. southern hemisphere (noun)

Southern

noun

Definition of SOUTHERN

: the dialect of English spoken in most of the Chesapeake Bay area, the coastal plain and the greater part of the upland plateau in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, and the Gulf states at least as far west as the valley of the Brazos in Texas and sometimes taken to include the south Midland area

First Known Use of SOUTHERN

1935

Other Language Terms

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