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Definition: Southernmost |
SouthernmostAdjective1. Situated farthest south; "Key West is the southernmost city in the United States". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "southernmost" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
Synonym: SouthernmostSynonym: southmost (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Southernmost |
| English words defined with "southernmost": Cape Horn, Cape Sable ♦ gu, Guam ♦ Hawaii, Hawaii Island, hooded skunk ♦ Kyushu ♦ lower limit ♦ Mephitis macroura ♦ Punta Arenas ♦ Republic of South Africa ♦ South Africa, South Pole, southmost ♦ winter solstice. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "southernmost": DEM ♦ Tail-end Charlie. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "southernmost": southmost. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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 | The distance and direction to Havana, Cuba, from the southernmost pier on Key West. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Experience with TIROS showed that bright clouds with relatively well-defined edges and isolated from a main cloud mass, could be indicators of severe weather Shortly after this photograph, the southernmost cloud spawned a tornado. TIROS I, orbit 820. Credit: NOAA in Space. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | It is responsible for transporting gas from Argentina's largest gas fields in the southernmost portions of the country to the main markets in the Province of Buenos Aires and the Federal Capital. (references) | |
Children | Brazil | In the Northeast, only 37 percent of school districts had such programs, while they were available in 81 percent of school districts in Brazil's southernmost three states. (references) |
Economic History | Mexico | An unresolved sociopolitical conflict exists in the southernmost state of Chiapas. (references) |
Brazil | Wine production in Brazil is concentrated in the Southernmost part of the country, notably the State of Rio Grande do Sul. (references) | |
Minorities | Thailand | Muslims, who represent up to 10 percent of the country's population nationwide and constitute the majority in four of the five southernmost provinces that border Malaysia, experienced some discrimination. (references) |
Trade | Finland | Hanko is located at the southernmost tip of the country. (references) |
Worker Rights | Benin | UNICEF also reported that trafficked persons originated primarily from the country's southernmost provinces, those with the easiest access to the paved coastal highway that links Cote d'Ivoire, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Southernmost" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Southernmost" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 59 | 44,010 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "southernmost"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | më jugor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | най-южен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 最最南端. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nejjižnìjší. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | دراقصی نقطه جنوب . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | eteläisin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | südlichst. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νοτιώτατοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | legdélibb. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | il più meridionale, il più a sud. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 最南 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さいな" (calamity, misfortune). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | outhernmostsay mais meridional. (various references) самый южный. (various references) najjužniji. (various references) más meridional. (various references) sydligast. (various references) en güneydeki (southmost). (various references) найбільш південний. (various references) cực nam. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "southernmost" (pronounced su"thernmō'st) |
| 7 | -th er n m ō' s t | northernmost. |
| 6 | -er n m ō' s t | westernmost. |
| 4 | -m ō' s t | almost, foremost, innermost, outermost, uppermost, utmost. |
| 3 | -ō' s t | cohost, goalpost, guidepost, lamppost, outpost, overdosed, seacoast, signpost, sternpost. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-m-n-o-o-r-s-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: monestrous. | |
-3 letters: mesotrons, monstrous, outermost, outhomers, outsnores, resmooths, smoothens, smoothers, smoothest, sostenuto, southerns, southrons, sternmost. | |
-4 letters: enormous, entrusts, hormones, huntress, hutments, mesotron, monsters, monteros, moonsets, moorhens, mounters, mouthers, munsters, nostrums, oestrous, oestrums, onrushes, orthoses, outhomer, outserts, outshone, outsnore, remounts, reshoots, resmooth, sheroots, shooters, shortens, shortest, shouters, shunters, shutters, smoothen, smoother, smoothes, smothers, soothers. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-m-n-o-o-r-s-s-t-t-u" | |
+4 letters: southeasternmost, southwesternmost. | |
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