southerly

IPA: sˈʌðɝɫi

noun

  • A wind blowing from the south.

adjective

  • Facing the south; directed towards the south.
  • Located towards or in the south.
  • Coming from the south.

adverb

  • In a southward direction or position; (towards the) south.
  • From the south.
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Examples of "southerly" in Sentences

  • Continue in a southerly direction.
  • The southerly tower is since a stump.
  • It is the most southerly of the Taunus oak.
  • It is the most southerly suburb of Canberra.
  • The most southerly peak is the highest, at .
  • It is the most southerly island in the state.
  • It is the most southerly of the Carneddau range.
  • Any accomplice would be in the southerly direction.
  • Wolf Island is the southerly island on the lineament.
  • Taking the 'southerly' routes in December is a roll of the dice.
  • The winds known as southerly bursters are generally to be expected from
  • The next day, the ships retired on a southerly course for replenishment.
  • The winds known as southerly bursters are generally to be expected from November to the end of
  • As of yesterday AM we were experiencing a so called southerly surge, bringing a thick marine layer and good stratus intrusion.
  • A so-called southerly wind is steering through our town of Sainte Cécile, causing the rain in its path to spray hither and thither.
  • We remained nearly an hour beside our beneficent fountain then took the route for Senegal; that is, a southerly direction, for we did not know exactly where that country lay.
  • We remained nearly an hour beside our beneficent fountain, then took the route for Senegal; that is, a southerly direction, for we did not know exactly where that country lay.
  • The British contention was that the wording of the Treaty provided first, that the channel should separate the mainland from Vancouver Island; second, that the boundary should go through it in a "southerly" direction; and third, that it should be navigable.
  • In the 1814 plan there was no hope to reconquer the United States, but with a British army firmly ensconced in the interior of New York, amid what the British yet again assumed was a sympathetic population, the Americans might have to concede a more southerly border for the Canadian provinces, if not in New York, then perhaps in Maine.
  • The breakers rise to the height of fifteen or eighteen feet before they burst in one unbroken line as far as the eye can see, and as the southerly is the most prevailing wind on that part of the Australian coast, it is only during the summer season, and after several days of northerly wind that the sea subsides, and the roar of breakers ceases for a time.

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