south
IPA: sˈaʊθ
noun
- One of the four principal compass points, specifically 180° (being directed towards the South Pole); conventionally downwards on a map.
- The southern region or area; the inhabitants thereof.
- (ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction to the right-hand side of a person facing the altar.
- (figurative) down or the negative direction
- (physics) The negative or south pole of a magnet
- The southern part of any region; alternative letter-case form of south.
- The Global South.
- (US) The south-eastern states of the United States, including many of the same states as formed the Confederacy.
- A surname.
- A placename
- (US) Ellipsis of Old South.: Those states which formed the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
verb
- To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south.
- (astronomy) To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line.
adjective
- Toward the south; southward.
- (meteorology, of wind) from the south.
- Of or pertaining to the south; southern.
- Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by southbound traffic.
- (ecclesiastical) Designating, or situated in, the liturgical south.
adverb
- Toward the south; southward.
- Downward.
- In an adverse direction or trend (go south).
- (meteorology) Of wind, from the south.
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Examples of "south" in Sentences
- The South Shields MP visited friends in Charlton, south
- Under South African law, arms cannot be sold to Yemen because of this year's fighting between north and south.
- Remote parts of the South: While most of the focus has been on NOLA, I am more concerned about the rest of the south.
- Support, encourage and strengthen your own South Sudanese hotels and products, because the money is going to remain in south.
- In the upper middle class South African household, ages 18 - 24 there is hardly a difference to be noticed in behaviour north and south.
- And the act of Parliament makes _this south side_ from this same bay along those highlands, and it must _inevitably run west_ or _it is no south_ boundary.
- At an event on Friday, former South African President Thabo Mbeki - the African Union's mediator on Sudan - said the vote marks the "true emancipation" of the people of the south.
- South of the equator the recurrence of the seasons is the exact reverse of their recurrence north of the equator, and therefore the breeding season of the birds is in the autumn instead of the spring; the flight from winter cold occurs in the spring instead of in the autumn, and is toward the north instead of toward the south.
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