单词 | southerling |
释义 | southerlingn. rare before 19th cent. A native or inhabitant of the southern part of a region. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of specific region > [noun] > southern people > person southerling1609 southlander1647 southern1823 southerner1833 Southron1857 southeasterner1883 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 80 They thinke he [sc. God] is gone to the South-side of heauen, and therefore cannot so easily heare both the Easterlings and the Southerlings. 1836 C. S. Rafinesque Amer. Nations I. 137 (catalogue entry) The west he visited, the forsaken land and the western southerlings. 1883 G. Vigfusson & F. Y. Powell Corpus Poet. Boreale I. 561 (note) Saxi, King of the Southerlings (South Teutons). 1993 D. Brin Glory Season (1994) xviii. 444 The other southerling parried Maia's strike and fought back. 2004 G. Nix Abhorsen xxii. 410 A young Southerling was translating for him, though Sam was sure that like most Southerlings, the matriarch understood at least spoken Ancelstierran. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1609 |
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