Webster's English Dictionary

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southern

south.ern \'s*th-*rn\ \-.mo-st\ aj [ME southern, southren, fr. OE 
   su-therne; akin to OHG s]undro-ni southern, OE su-th south often cap  1: 
   of, relating to, or characteristic of a region conventionally designate d 
   South 2a: lying toward the south  2b: coming from the south  - 
   south.ern.most ajSouthern n : the dialect of English spoken in most of the 
   Chesapeake Bay area, the co astal 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