southerner
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈsʌðərnər/
- Also, I felt awkward telling a Black southerner of a certain age what was and was not blues.
- white southerner
- many southerners
- Black southerner
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Watch on YouTubeThis guy looks like an old angry southerner who was misled by Trump.
- This guy looks like an old angry southerner who was misled by Trump.
- Now Morrison could have had Sethi speaking for all kinds of Southerners.
- Black woman, Southerner, mixed race person, Black middle class person.
- Your parents were Southerners and and then you're raised in Brooklyn.
Examples
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You know, my mama... she always told me... us southerners get our good manners from the British.
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I'm a southerner.
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That, I think, just about takes care of every Southerner here.
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And yet you sound like such a polite southerner.
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And really, it's just too much of what I'm used to, being a southerner.
Fiction book (2002) -
Well, who would better know about defect than a southerner.
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Meanwhile, we southerners should remain here and prevent him from carrying out policies that will ruin this country, our one country!
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In addition to being consumers of Romantic literature, southerners also produced it.
Academic text (2015) -
We're southerners.
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Every Southerner enjoys gatherings for barbecues and family reunions.
Synonyms
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5.9
A person who lives in North or South Carolina in the United States
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4.9
A person who was born in or lives in the state of Tennessee in the United States
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3.7
A person who lives in or was born in South Carolina
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6.1
A person from the state of Mississippi in the United States
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7.9
A person who comes from the Southland region of New Zealand
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word southerner comes from south meaning 'the direction at the bottom of a map or the warmer part of a country' and the ending -er meaning 'a person from'. So, a southerner is someone who comes from or lives in the south of a country.