Southern United States
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- proper noun
- /ˈsʌðərn juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts/
- The cuisine of the Southern United States is famous for its dishes like gumbo and fried chicken.
- northern and southern United States
- located in the southern United States
- university in the southern United States
Examples
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The researcher visited youth sport programs located in a small college town in the southern United States.
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Two hundred and seventy-one students at a large southern United States university completed the free elicitation task.
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I'm personally a college student at a major four-year university in the southern United States of America.
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Historically, migration from the Southern United States to the North informed the movement of African Americans from the earliest days of slavery.
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Catfish farmers in the southern United States seine their annual crop.
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The sample was composed of 341 undergraduate students from a medium-sized university located in the southern United States of America.
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Soil-moisture conditions generally control the biome transition from forest to grassland in the southern United States.
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"Over the last 3 years, sheath blight and blast have devastated the rice crop in the southern United States," she says.
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"In 1993, it was grown on 151,000 acres in the southern United States, about 6 percent of the region's total rice acreage."
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Twenty-one graduate students pursuing a Master's of Professional Accountancy degree at a land-grant university in the southern United States participated in this study.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
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The southern part of the United States below the Mason-Dixon line
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is compositionally built from 'southern' (pertaining to the south) and 'United States' (the country composed of states), so a learner who knows the constituents can infer it denotes the southern region of the U.S. This is a straightforward geographic, compositional expression found cross-linguistically and follows normal noun phrase formation, making it immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
Southern United States comes from calling the lower part of the country the south — imagine looking at a map and pointing to the bottom states. Because those states share a long history, warm weather, and different foods and music, Southern United States now means both that place and its special culture.