SOUTHLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does southland mean? 

• SOUTHLAND (noun)
  The noun SOUTHLAND has 1 sense:

1. any region lying in or toward the south

  Familiarity information: SOUTHLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTHLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any region lying in or toward the south

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("southland" is a kind of...):

region (a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth)

 Context examples 

A soft southland dog would have died under it, but not he.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And now there came a time of stir and bustle, of furbishing of arms and clang of hammer from all the southland counties.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sometimes, when a soft southland dog went down, shrieking its death-cry under the fangs of the pack, this man would be unable to contain himself, and would leap into the air and cry out with delight.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Hordle John drew the back of his hand across his mouth, fixed his eyes upon the corner of the ceiling, and bellowed forth, in a voice which made the torches flicker, the southland ballad for which he had been asked.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The one was an oldish man with a thin beard, a crooked nose, and a broad red smudge from a birth-mark over his temple; the other was a negro, a thing rarely met in England at that day, and rarer still in the quiet southland parts.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Behind them a group of swaggering, half-drunken Yorkshire dalesmen, speaking a dialect which their own southland countrymen could scarce comprehend, their jerkins marked with the pelican, which showed that they had come over in the train of the north-country Stapletons.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)