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Southerner
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- 1 Alternative letter-case form of southerner (native or inhabitant of the south of any region). alt-of
- 2 A native or inhabitant of the south of a region (or of the world as a whole), such as the United Kingdom.
- 3 an American who lives in the South wordnet
- 4 A resident of the American South, often specifically a white resident of the American South. US
"Lee, known through life as "Roony," was a Virginian of the eighteenth century... Tall, largely built, handsome, genial, with liberal Virginian openness towards all he liked, he had also the Virginian habit of command and took leadership as his natural habit. No one cared to contest it. None of the New Englanders wanted command. For a year, at least, Lee was the most popular and prominent young man in his class, but then seemed slowly to drop into the background... No one knew enough to know how ignorant he was; how childlike; how helpless before the relative complexity of a school. As an animal, the Southerner seemed to have every advantage, but even as an animal he steadily lost ground. Strictly, the Southerner had no mind; he had temperament. He was not a scholar; he had no intellectual training; he could not analyze an idea, and he could not even conceive of admitting two; but in life one could get along very well without ideas, if one had only the social instinct."
- 5 Alternative letter-case form of Southerner (someone from one of the southeastern United States). alt-of
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- 6 Synonym of Confederate: a citizen of the Confederate States of America. US, historical
Etymology
From southern + -er.
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