Word Meanings - PAN-AMERICAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to both North and South America.

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• SOUTHWEST
  Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• SOUTHPAW
  A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
• NORTHERNMOST
  Farthest north.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• NORTHERN
  1. Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west. 2. In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind. Northern diver. See Loon. --
• NORTHMAN
  One of the inhabitants of the north of Europe; esp., one of the ancient Scandinavians; a Norseman.
• NORTHMOST
  Lying farthest north; northernmost. Northmost part of the coast of Mozambique. De Foe.
• NORTHEAST
  Of or pertaining to the northeast; proceeding toward the northeast, or coming from that point; as, a northeast course; a northeast wind. Northeast passage, a passage or communication by sea between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans along the north
• AMERICAN
  1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
• AMERICANISM
  1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
• NORTHWESTWARD; NORTHWESTWARDLY
  Toward the northwest.
• SOUTHSAYER
  See SOOTHSAYER
• SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
  the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
• NORTH STAR STATE
  Minnesota; -- a nickname.
• NORTHWESTERN
  Of, pertaining to, or being in, the northwest; in a direction toward the northwest; coming from the northwest; northwesterly; as, a northwestern course.
• NORTHERLINESS
  The quality or state of being northerly; direction toward the north.
• AMERICAN PLAN
  In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
• SOUTHING
  Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian