See Southland in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "13 39 14 33",
"word": "Southlander"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "south",
"3": "land"
},
"expansion": "south + -land",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From south + -land.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Southland",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Places in New Zealand",
"orig": "en:Places in New Zealand",
"parents": [
"Places"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Regions of New Zealand",
"orig": "en:Regions of New Zealand",
"parents": [
"Regions",
"Places"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Southland, New Zealand",
"orig": "en:Southland, New Zealand",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Territorial authorities of New Zealand",
"orig": "en:Territorial authorities of New Zealand",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A region and territorial authority in the far south of the South Island of New Zealand, which includes Fiordland; in full, Southland District."
],
"id": "en-Southland-en-name-f5Qv7h48",
"links": [
[
"region",
"region"
],
[
"South Island",
"South Island"
],
[
"New Zealand",
"New Zealand#English"
],
[
"Fiordland",
"Fiordland"
],
[
"Southland District",
"Southland District#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Geographic and cultural areas of the United States",
"orig": "en:Geographic and cultural areas of the United States",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Places in the United States",
"orig": "en:Places in the United States",
"parents": [
"Places"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "7 41 14 38",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "9 38 15 38",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -land",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 40 15 37",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "7 40 15 37",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
25,
34
]
],
"ref": "1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail:",
"text": "Too long has our beloved Southland been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue [...]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
85,
94
]
],
"ref": "1974, Lynyrd Skynyrd, “Sweet Home Alabama”, in Second Helping:",
"text": "Big wheels keep on turnin' // Carry me home to see my kin // Singin' songs about the Southland // I miss Alabamy once again, and I think it's a sin",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
72,
81
]
],
"ref": "1993, Robert C. McMath, American Populism: A Social History 1877-1898, page 158:",
"text": "[...] 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 [...]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The American South: A geographic region approximately consisting of the states in the southeast quadrant of the United States."
],
"id": "en-Southland-en-name-kTYSfy-B",
"links": [
[
"South",
"South"
],
[
"United States",
"United States#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Geographic and cultural areas",
"orig": "en:Geographic and cultural areas",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "7 41 14 38",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "9 38 15 38",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -land",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 40 15 37",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "7 40 15 37",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Southern California: A geographic region constituting the portion of California approximately south of the Bay Area."
],
"id": "en-Southland-en-name-QBEft90D",
"links": [
[
"Southern California",
"Southern California"
],
[
"California",
"California#English"
],
[
"Bay Area",
"Bay Area"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Places in Texas, USA",
"orig": "en:Places in Texas, USA",
"parents": [
"Places"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Places in the United States",
"orig": "en:Places in the United States",
"parents": [
"Places"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Unincorporated communities in Texas, USA",
"orig": "en:Unincorporated communities in Texas, USA",
"parents": [
"Unincorporated communities",
"Places"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "7 41 14 38",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "9 38 15 38",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -land",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 40 15 37",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "7 40 15 37",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An unincorporated community in Garza County, Texas, United States."
],
"id": "en-Southland-en-name-QpfMBYWZ",
"links": [
[
"unincorporated community",
"unincorporated community"
],
[
"Garza County",
"Garza County#English"
],
[
"Texas",
"Texas#English"
],
[
"United States",
"United States#English"
]
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Southland District",
"Southland Region",
"Southland, Texas"
],
"word": "Southland"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English proper nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -land",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "Southlander"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "south",
"3": "land"
},
"expansion": "south + -land",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From south + -land.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Southland",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Places in New Zealand",
"en:Regions of New Zealand",
"en:Southland, New Zealand",
"en:Territorial authorities of New Zealand"
],
"glosses": [
"A region and territorial authority in the far south of the South Island of New Zealand, which includes Fiordland; in full, Southland District."
],
"links": [
[
"region",
"region"
],
[
"South Island",
"South Island"
],
[
"New Zealand",
"New Zealand#English"
],
[
"Fiordland",
"Fiordland"
],
[
"Southland District",
"Southland District#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Geographic and cultural areas of the United States",
"en:Places in the United States"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
25,
34
]
],
"ref": "1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail:",
"text": "Too long has our beloved Southland been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue [...]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
85,
94
]
],
"ref": "1974, Lynyrd Skynyrd, “Sweet Home Alabama”, in Second Helping:",
"text": "Big wheels keep on turnin' // Carry me home to see my kin // Singin' songs about the Southland // I miss Alabamy once again, and I think it's a sin",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
72,
81
]
],
"ref": "1993, Robert C. McMath, American Populism: A Social History 1877-1898, page 158:",
"text": "[...] 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 [...]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The American South: A geographic region approximately consisting of the states in the southeast quadrant of the United States."
],
"links": [
[
"South",
"South"
],
[
"United States",
"United States#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Geographic and cultural areas"
],
"glosses": [
"Southern California: A geographic region constituting the portion of California approximately south of the Bay Area."
],
"links": [
[
"Southern California",
"Southern California"
],
[
"California",
"California#English"
],
[
"Bay Area",
"Bay Area"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Places in Texas, USA",
"en:Places in the United States",
"en:Unincorporated communities in Texas, USA"
],
"glosses": [
"An unincorporated community in Garza County, Texas, United States."
],
"links": [
[
"unincorporated community",
"unincorporated community"
],
[
"Garza County",
"Garza County#English"
],
[
"Texas",
"Texas#English"
],
[
"United States",
"United States#English"
]
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Southland District",
"Southland Region",
"Southland, Texas"
],
"word": "Southland"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Southland meaning in English (3.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (58c391d and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.