southern

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The northern side of this narrow ravine, being in some measure exposed to the southern sun, is clothed with woods; the southern is a great wall of bare rock rising in terraces, or giant steps, that might well suggest the dreariness and desolation of a landscape in the moon.

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  1. adjective Situated in, toward, or facing the south.
  2. adjective Coming from the south: southern breezes.
  3. adjective Native to or growing in the south.
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  • Army commandos caught Ansar Venancio during a raid at a rebel hideout in Marawi City on the southern island of Mindanao two weeks ago, Lieutenant-Colonel Arnulfo Burgos said on Wednesday, adding his arrest will help uncover links between JI militants and rebels on Mindanao. —  Breaking News - The Post Chronicle
  • The northern side of this narrow ravine, being in some measure exposed to the southern sun, is clothed with woods; the southern is a great wall of bare rock rising in terraces, or giant steps, that might well suggest the dreariness and desolation of a landscape in the moon. —  Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania
  • He was born in the Midi, as they call the southern part of France. —  A Journey Through France in War Time
  • These arrivals added strength to the United States, particularly as a large part of them settled on farms This stream of immigration gradually dried up, but was succeeded by a flood from a new source,--southern and eastern Europe. —  Applied Eugenics
  • There were turquoise spikes in the southern, abalone in the western, and jet in the northern walls. —  The North American Indian
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  1. Middle English southerne, from Old English sūtherne; see sāwel- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English southerne, sowtherne, sothern, sutherne, also, in forms due rather to the Icelandic, southeron, southren, sothroun, suthroun (see southron), from Anglo-Saxon sūtherne = OFries. sūthern, sūdern = Middle Low German sūdern = Icelandic sudhrænn = Old High German sundrōni, Middle High German sundern, southern; from sūth, south, + -erne, an obscured term, appearing most clearly in the Old High German form -rōni (ult. from rinnan, run: see run). Cf. northern, eastern, western. Doublet of southron.
  2. from southern, adjective
 

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