Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Toward the south; southerly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Somewhat southern.
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- adjective Somewhat southern.
- adverb
Southward .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When I lived in Russia I visited the nice southernly city of Rostov-on-Don.
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“I am so terribly sorry it turned out this way,” she said southernly.
As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010
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“I am so terribly sorry it turned out this way,” she said southernly.
As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010
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He mounted to the walls (which inclose the whole western portion of the city) by the North Street Postern, from which the walk winds round until it ends again at its southernly extremity in the narrow passage of Rosemary Lane.
No Name 2003
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Off the Pacific shore of Washington State the Japanese Current-a mammoth river of tropical water-zooms close by the coast on a southernly turn.
Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971
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Faith, such as early Christianity desired, and not infrequently achieved in the midst of a skeptical and southernly free-spirited world, which had centuries of struggle between philosophical schools behind it and in it, counting besides the education in tolerance which the Imperium Romanum gave -- this faith is NOT that sincere, austere slave-faith by which perhaps a
Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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The cases 23, 24, are filled with curiosities from more southernly parts of the North
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855
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From here the long channel of the river running southernly, with its bordering ridge of hills, and above all, the wealth and glory of the woodland and the unheaved rocks before me, were almost as good as the eastern view.
Daisy Susan Warner 1852
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After crossing the river, we hurried along by a more southernly and straighter road than we formerly came by, and reached Kazé towards the latter end of June.
What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845
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As well as being slighty more streamlined, the Ecuadorians seem to be slighty more timid than their more southernly relatives - even when they have stuff to sell you, they seem to be reluctant to even look you in the eye never mind shout in your face like the Paceñas or Cusceñas.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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