Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A person who lives in the south, especially an Englishman as called by a Scotsman.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of the American South. Used by the Confederates in the Civil War.
  • adjective Southern.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Southern.
  • Pertaining or belonging to the southern United States.
  • noun A native or an inhabitant of a southern country, or of the southern part of a country.
  • noun A native or an inhabitant of the southern States of the American Union.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An inhabitant of the more southern part of a country; formerly, a name given in Scotland to any Englishman.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective archaic southern
  • adjective archaic, Scotland English, from England
  • noun archaic A southerner, someone from the south.
  • noun archaic, Scotland An Englishman.
  • noun Alternative capitalization of Southron

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, variant of southerne, southern; see southern.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Likely from a Northumbrian alteration of earlier Old English suþern, suþærn. The switch from -ern to -ron is likely due to the influence of Old Norse rann ("place, house, home") on Old English ærn ("home, place"). More at southern.

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Examples

  • Rodrik is unusual in being a worshipper of the Faith of the Seven that holds sway in the southlands, rather than the old gods of the forest who are worshipped in the north, and is a knight, which is also unusual as that is mainly a southron custom.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Adam Whitehead 2009

  • Rodrik is unusual in being a worshipper of the Faith of the Seven that holds sway in the southlands, rather than the old gods of the forest who are worshipped in the north, and is a knight, which is also unusual as that is mainly a southron custom.

    Casting completed for GAME OF THRONES Adam Whitehead 2009

  • Men said he was no civilized man at all, but a Cimmerian, one of those barbaric tribesmen who dwelt in the gray hills of the far North, and whose raids struck terror in their southron neighbors.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Men said he was no civilized man at all, but a Cimmerian, one of those barbaric tribesmen who dwelt in the gray hills of the far North, and whose raids struck terror in their southron neighbors.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • As he rode toward the woods now, he leaned forward and a little to one side, using this mount's body as a shield in case that southron had a crossbow aimed at him.

    Advance and Retreat Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • "If that is a southron, I don't aim to let him get back and tell his pals he's seen us."

    Advance and Retreat Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • George had been a tower of strength then; without him, General Guildenstern's whole army, and the southron war effort east of the mountains, might well have gone to pieces in the aftermath of the defeat.

    Advance and Retreat Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • They didn't look like men who'd been able to keep all of eastern Franklin and Cloviston in an uproar behind southron lines, or like men who'd routed a southron army three times the size of their own in Great River Province.

    Advance and Retreat Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • A few of them sneaked across the river and raided southron outposts on the far bank.

    Advance and Retreat Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • He'd ridden into southron-held Luxor, on the banks of the Great River, and come within inches of capturing the enemy commander there.

    Advance and Retreat Turtledove, Harry 2002

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  • This word was used in "The Lord Of The Rings" book series.

    August 23, 2012