southron

[ suhth-ruhn ]

/ ˈsʌð rən /

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noun

Southern U.S. southerner (def. 2).

(usually initial capital letter)Scot. a native or inhabitant of England.

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Origin of southron

1425–75; late Middle English; earlier southren (variant of southern), modeled on Saxon, Briton, etc.

Words nearby southron

South Polar Region, South Pole, Southport, South Portland, South River, southron, South Salt Lake, South Sandwich Islands, South San Francisco, South Saskatchewan, South Sea Bubble

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How to use southron in a sentence

At first Warren smiled, then he swore, as only a chivalrous Southron can!
The Ghost Breaker|Charles Goddard
Not a Doomsman set out upon his long journey to the shadowland but that a Southron was forced to bear him company.
The Doomsman|Van Tassel Sutphen
The warders at Berwick no longer look out from the castle walls to descry the glitter of Southron spears.
Lives of the Engineers|Samuel Smiles
I seem now to see the glaring eyes of one indignant southron as he scowled upon the proceedings with the intensest malignity.
Reminiscences of two years with the colored troops|Joshua M. Addeman

Yet Mr Barrie, in spite of a dialect not easy to the Southron, contrived to touch a more intimate and more responsive chord.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3|Various

British Dictionary definitions for southron

Southron

/ (ˈsʌðrən) /

noun

mainly Scot a Southerner, esp an Englishman

Scot the English language as spoken in England

dialect, mainly Southern US an inhabitant of the South, esp at the time of the Civil War

adjective

mainly Scot of or relating to the South or to England

Word Origin for Southron

C15: Scottish variant of Southern

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