DIXIE


Meaning of DIXIE in English

I .

( also Dixieland )

an informal US name for the south-eastern states. It came from the song Dixie but has never been fully explained. It may refer to the imaginary Mason-Dixon line that separates the North from the South.

II .

the battle song of the Confederate States . It was written in 1859 in New York as Dixie’s Land by Daniel Emmett, who was later upset that it became the ‘Confederate national anthem’. Dixie was, however, a favourite song of Abraham Lincoln . It begins

I wish I was in the land of cotton,

Old times there are not forgotten;

Look away, look away, look away,

Dixie land!

Oxford guide to British and American culture English vocabulary.      Руководство по британской и американской культуре, Оксфордский английский словарь.