Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Furthest toward the south.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rare Farthest toward the south; southernmost.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. situated farthest south
Etymologies
- south + -most (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We added a super (an extra hive box for honey storage) atop the southmost hive, which was already packed with bees.”
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“Mine is Chiang Mai versus Puerto Veracruz, and I used to compare southmost Texas with southernmost Chiapas.”
“The taxi went along Chatham Road in the usual heavy traffic, southward, skirting the railway line, then turned west along Salisbury Road on the southmost tip of Kowloon, passing the railway terminus, near the Golden Ferry Terminal.”
“It was necessary, if F12A was to be held by us, that the southmost stretch of”
The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918
“Bojador, the "paunch" or "bulging Cape," 180 miles beyond Cape Non, had been, since the days of the Laurentian Portulano (1351), and the Catalan and Portuguese voyages of 1341 and 1346, the southmost point of”
“Bojador, southmost point of Christian knowledge, 170; legends concerning, 171; doubled by Gil Eannes, 173”
“Yet one day, when the sight of the valley was most fair to their eyes, there came out of the southmost corner a girl, who, as soon as she set foot in the valley, laid aside her knapsack in the hollow of a tree, also her moccasins and a little cap of fur, and came on with bare head and feet towards the Mount of the Lost Winters.”
“Valley at the southmost corner, laid his cap and bag, moccasins, bow and arrow, and an iron weapon away in a hollow log, seeing not that there were also another bag and cap, and a pair of moccasins there.”
“Yet one day, when the sight of the valley was most fair to their eyes, there came out of the southmost corner a girl, who, as soon as she set foot in the valley, laid aside her knapsack in the hollow of a tree, also her moccasins and”
“But something availed; and one day a footworn traveller, entering the Valley at the southmost corner, laid his cap and bag, moccasins, bow and arrow, and an iron weapon away in a hollow log, seeing not that there were also another bag and cap, and a pair of moccasins there.”
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