DEEP SOUTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Deep South mean? 

• DEEP SOUTH (noun)
  The noun DEEP SOUTH has 1 sense:

1. the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery

  Familiarity information: DEEP SOUTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEEP SOUTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Deep South"):

AL; Ala.; Alabama; Camellia State; Heart of Dixie (a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

Empire State of the South; GA; Ga.; Georgia; Peach State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

LA; La.; Louisiana; Pelican State (a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

Magnolia State; Miss.; Mississippi; MS (a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War)

Palmetto State; S.C.; SC; South Carolina (a state in the Deep South; one of the original 13 colonies)

Holonyms ("Deep South" is a part of...):

South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)