Phrase Hound found 167 phrases and 21 compound words that contain southern. The most common are listed below. Open southern in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 167
- Southern HemisphereThe hemisphere in Earth to the south of the Equator, containing only about 10% of the total land area on Earth.
- Southern OceanThe portion of the World Ocean surrounding Antarctica, variously taken as the waters south of the Antarctic Circle, the waters south of 60° S, or the waters bounded by the Antarctic Convergence.
- Southern EuropeA sociopolitical region of Europe including such countries as Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece.
- Southern BugA river in Ukraine.
- Southern CaliforniaThe southern portion of the state of California, which can include Santa Barbara and is generally separated from Norcal by the Tehachapi mountain range.
- Southern AfricaA geographic region comprising the southern part of Africa; always including South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini, and sometimes also Angola, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
- Southern IrelandThe short-lived autonomous region of the United Kingdom established on 3 May 1921 and dissolved on 6 December 1922, superseded by the Irish Free State.
- Southern EuropeanOf, from, or pertaining to Southern Europe, its people, or its culture.
- Southern ComfortAn American fruit-flavored whiskey liqueur, created in New Orleans in 1874, which is caramel in color.
- southern lightsThe aurora of the southern hemisphere.
- Southern CrossA distinctive winter constellation of the southern sky, shaped like a cross, which appears in the flags of several countries in Oceania.
- Southern MinA group of local languages of Min Chinese, which can trace their origins to southern Fujian province, China.
- Southern SamiRelating to the Southern Sami people living in east central Norway south of the Arctic Circle and across the border in Sweden, and their language and culture.
- Southern DenmarkAn administrative region in the south of Denmark.
- Great SouthernA region in the far south of Western Australia, one of the nine regions in the state.
- Southern AsiaSynonym of South Asia: A geographic region of Asia, comprising all the countries of the Indian subcontinent (principally India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan) and the Indian Ocean (principally Sri Lanka, Maldives).
- Southern RegionA region of Malta.
- Southern ProvinceA province in Sierra Leone. Capital: Bo.
- Southern RhodesiaA former colony of the United Kingdom; a name used to refer to the area now called Zimbabwe, officially introduced in 1901. A self-governing colony of Britain from 1923, its government began to refer to itself simply as Rhodesia in 1964 …
- Southern States
- Southern United StatesAn expansive region encompassing the southeastern and south-central part of the United States.
- Southern MongoliaSynonym of Inner Mongolia: An autonomous region of China, south of Mongolia, with a closely related native Mongolian population, mostly north of the Great Wall. Capital: Hohhot.
- Southern AltaiA Turkic language spoken in the Altai Republic, Russia on the border of Mongolia and the People's Republic of China. There is no mutual intelligibility with Northern Altai.
- Southern ConeThe southern portion of South America, consisting of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, sometimes southern Brazil, São Paulo state and Paraguay.
- Southern KurdishThe Kurdish language spoken in western Iran, and to a small extent in Iraq. Kalhuri (Kermashani), Feili (Ilami) and Laki are divided into the southern dialect subgroup.
Compound words 21
- southernwoodAn aromatic shrub, Artemisia abrotanum, related to wormwood.
- southernlySoutherly, somewhat southern.
- southernismAnything characteristic of the southern part of a region, especially the southern United States.
- southernizationThe process of southernizing.
- southernificationThe process by which a place begins to resemble the American South.
- southernishSomewhat southern.
- nonsouthernNot southern.
- paleosouthernRelating to the south as it was in prehistoric times
- southernisationAlternative spelling of southernization: The process of southernizing.
- southerniseAlternative spelling of southernize: To make southern in character.