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southern
Adjective
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A southern place, accent, person, etc. is in, from, or about the south.
The money helps everyone from a grocer in southern Lebanon to a farmer in Tajikistan.
My grandmother moved to southern California to live with my aunt.
Her soft, southern accent reminded him of warm summer nights.
Recently, elephants have done well in southern Africa.
She remembered a summer afternoon swimming off the family compound at the southern tip of Taiwan.
Each year, millions of Mexicans cross that southern border from Mexico into the United States.
Dire Dawa is located on the southern edge of the Rift Valley at the foot of the Harrar Mountains.
Jupiter lies fairly low in the southern sky after dusk.
black
Noun
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The darkest color; with no light; the color of the sky at night.
He stood alone in the black of the night.
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Blacks are people of a race with dark coloured skin.
There were many whites, some blacks and native Americans, and a few Asians.
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If a company is in the black, it is making a profit. (opposite = in the red)
It took a year for the restaurant to get in the black.
black
Adjective
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colored black
The black dog was the color of night.
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If someone is black, they belong to a race with dark-coloured skin.
It's still difficult for a black person to become a manager.
About 30 percent of Southfield's 80,000 citizens are black.
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About a race with dark-coloured skin.
More and more universities are offering courses in black history.
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Black coffee or tea has no milk in it.
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If something is black, it is very bad.
The day the war started was a black day in history.
black
Verb
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If you black something, you color it black.
He blacked his boots before the party.
They blacked out the windows so the light would not be seen outside.
A number of lines in the report were blacked out.
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If you black out, you stop seeing and hearing everything around you and you fall down.
After his tenth beer, he blacked out and we couldn't wake him up.
flycatcher
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noun
(= New World flycatcher)
large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing
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noun
(= Old World flycatcher)
any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing