Definition of Southernmost

1. Adjective. Situated farthest south. "Key West is the southernmost city in the continental United States"

Exact synonyms: Southmost
Similar to: South

Definition of Southernmost

1. a. Farthest south.

Definition of Southernmost

1. Adjective. Farthest south. ¹

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Definition of Southernmost

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Southernmost

southern maidenhair
southern porgy
southern red cedar
southern red oak
southern screamer
southern screamers
southern scup
southern spadefoot
southern spatterdock
southern vole
southern voles
southern white cedar
southern yellow pine
southernism
southernly
southernness
southernnesses
southerns
southernwood
southernwoods
southers
southing
southings
southland
southlands
southly
southness
southnesses

Literary usage of Southernmost

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1903)
"... reminded that the southernmost portion of Africa is entirely in English hands, as well as the huge continent of Australia. Returning northward, we find ..."

2. Around & about South America: Apéndice al folleto los treinta y tres by Luis Melián Lafinur, Frank Vincent (1897)
"THE GLOBE'S southernmost TOWN. passed from Smyth's Channel to the Strait of Magellan, with Cape Pillar just discernible about thirty miles to the west, ..."

3. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"reminded that the southernmost portion of Africa is entirely in English hands, as well as the huge continent of Australia. Returning northward, we find the ..."

4. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"reminded that the southernmost portion of Africa is entirely in English hands, as well as the huge continent of Australia. Returning northward, we find the ..."

5. South America: A Geography Reader by Isaiah Bowman (1915)
"... snow- and ice-crowned mountain tops,—these are almost constant elements of the scenery in this land of the southernmost people in the world. ..."

6. South America: A Geography Reader by Isaiah Bowman (1915)
"... snow- and ice-crowned mountain tops, — these are almost constant elements of the scenery in this land of the southernmost people in the world. ..."

7. History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft (1856)
"... the southernmost of the CHAP, Carolina, at some periods of the year, cannot safely 1584 be approached by a fleet, from the hurricanes which sweep the ..."

8. History of India by Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson, Henry Miers Elliot, Romesh Chunder Dutt, Vincent Arthur Smith, Stanley Lane-Poole, Sir William Wilson Hunter, Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall (1906)
"... an expedition under Diogo Lopes de Sequeira to explore Madagascar on one side of the Indian Ocean and the CAPE COMORIN, THE southernmost POINT OF INDIA. ..."

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