English

Proper noun

Southland

1. A district and region in the far south of the South Island of New Zealand, which includes Fiordland.
2. The American South.
   • Martin Luther King, Jr.:

     Too long has our beloved Southland been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue [...]

   • 1993, Robert C. McMath, American Populism: A Social History 1877-1898, page 158:

     [...] combining in great oratorical flourishes a defense of his beloved Southland against the onslaughts of northern capitalists and a critique of the financial and transportation systems that threatened to impoverish farmers regardless of race [...]

English

Noun

southland ‎(plural southlands)

1. A land that lies to the south.

Antonyms

• northland