noun
Dixie
DIHK-see
noun
1
An informal name for the southern United States, especially the states that once formed the Confederacy.
"The song became an unofficial anthem of Dixie during the Civil War era."
Word Forms
dixies plural
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Etymology
First recorded in 1859; possibly linked to the Mason-Dixon Line, or to a New Orleans ten-dollar note once nicknamed a "dixie" (from French dix, "ten").