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SOUTHERNER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: southerner   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An American who lives in the South

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Southerner" is a kind of...):

American (a native or inhabitant of the United States)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Southerner"):

Confederate (a supporter of the Confederate States of America)

good ol' boy; good old boy; good ole boy (a white male Southerner with an unpretentious convivial manner and conservative or intolerant attitudes and a strong sense of fellowship with and loyalty to other members of his peer group)

Holonyms ("Southerner" is a member of...):

South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)

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