southern
part of speech
adjective
meaning for a pupil
1) Southern means in or from the south part of a place. tree →
2) Southern means facing or going towards the south. tree →
sense in the lessons
In geography, the Southern Hemisphere is the half of the Earth south of the equator, including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and most of South America; there the seasons are the opposite of the north, so Christmas comes in summer. The Southern Ocean surrounds Antarctica. In the USA, "the South" and "southern states" are the states in the south-east. Phrases: Southern Hemisphere, southern lights (aurora australis), southern part of.
examples
- Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere. tree →
- We drove to the southern coast. tree →
- The Southern Ocean is very cold and stormy. tree →
- In the southern states of the USA, summers are hot. tree →
- Penguins live in southern lands near Antarctica. tree →
- The southern lights glow over Antarctica. tree →
- At length he reached the southern side of the rocky heights of Parnassus, beneath which lay the harbour of Crissa. tree →
note
Opposite: northern. Pronounced "SUTH-ern" (like "mother"), not like "south". Capital S when part of a name: the Southern Ocean, the Southern Hemisphere. When it is winter in the northern half of the world, it is summer in the southern half.
In the corpora
- Wild penguins live only in the southern half of the world; none live in Madagascar or at the North Pole.
- Once the steppe covered much of southern Ukraine.
- Armadillos live from the southern USA down to Argentina.
- At midday the Sun is in the southern part of the sky in the USA, Canada, the UK and Ireland.
- Polar bears live only in the Arctic and wild penguins only in the southern hemisphere, so they never meet in nature.
Trees and pragmatics
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