- in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line;
"southern hospitality" "southern cooking" "southern plantations"
- situated in or oriented toward the south;
"a southern exposure" "took a southerly course"
- situated in or coming from regions of the south;
"the southern hemisphere" "southern constellations"
- from the south; used especially of wind;
"a hot southerly wind" "southern breezes" "the winds are southerly"
