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south (so̵ut̸h)

noun

  1. the direction to the left of a person facing the sunset; direction of the South Pole from any other point on the earth's surface
  2. the point on a compass at 180°, directly opposite north
  3. a region or district in or toward this direction
  4. the southern part of the earth, esp. the antarctic regions

Etymology: ME < OE suth, akin to OHG sund-, ON suthr < Gmc *suntha- (understood as sun side < IE *sun-, sun), prob. < *swintha-, strong, sound, to the right side, in reference to the east-facing position during prayer

adjective

  1. in, of, to, toward, or facing the south
  2. from the south a south wind
  3. designating the southern part of a continent, country, etc. South Asia

adverb

in or toward the south; in a southerly direction

south Idioms

go south

☆

Informal to decline, deteriorate, fail, etc. stock prices went south

the South

☆ that part of the U.S. which is bounded on the north by the southern border of Pa., the Ohio River, and the eastern and northern borders of Mo.; specif., in the Civil War, the Confederacy

South Synonyms

South

n.

the Sunny South, South Atlantic States, the Old South, Pre-Civil War South, Southern United States, the New South, the Deep South, territory south of the Mason-Dixon line, cotton belt, tobacco states, Sunbelt, Bible belt, down south*, Dixie*, Dixieland*, Southland*; see also Confederacy, United States.

south Synonyms

south

modif.

  1. Situated to the south

    southern, southward, on the south side of, in the south, toward the equator, southmost, southernmost, toward the south pole, southerly, austral, tropical, equatorial, in the torrid zone.

  2. Moving south

    southward, to the south, southbound, headed south, southerly, in a southerly direction, toward the equator.

  3. Coming from the south

    headed north, northbound, out of the south, from the south, toward the north pole; see also north 2.

south Synonyms

south

n.

southland, southern section, southern region, tropics, tropical region, equatorial region, south pole, southern hemisphere, south arctic region.

south Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • island: Getting air This may be difficult in the south of the island.
  • workhouse: A chapel lay at the south of the workhouse.
  • boro: Harrow YISP Harrow YISP, based at Rooks High School, works with a cluster of schools in the south of the boro.
  • country: By the end of April, the first Swifts may have arrived in the far south of the country.

Converse of object

  • lie: The provincial town of Samut Sakhon lies about 45 km south of Bangkok.

Adjective modifier

  • furthest: Addu Atoll is the furthest south of all the Maldivian atolls and is itself made up of over 30 islands.
  • sunny: The self catered apartment has the benefit of a sunny south facing balcony with views to the resort and pistes.
  • 10km: I drove 10km south to the area designated as a World Heritage Area.
  • 1km: The proposal Luton Airport owners propose to build a new runway 3Km in length 1Km south of the existing shorter runway.
  • 200m: This is south of Bois Grenier and about 200m south of the White City CWGC Cemetery.
  • due: Due south of Australasia is the Ross Sea, which borders the vast Ross Ice Shelf.

Modifies a noun

  • coast: The south west coast has a very mild climate due to the warm air of the Gulf Stream.
  • west: To the south west of the Manor there is a feature called the Deer Ring.
  • aisle: The chancel, the nave arcades and the south aisle were rebuilt in the 13th century.
  • porch: These gates are very like the 200-year-old gates of the south porch of our Cirencester Parish Church.
  • transept: In the south transept the south window, of three cinquefoiled lights, c.
  • side: The south side of the lock chamber is more or less intact.

Noun used with modifier

  • km: It's just north of Safaga, about 45 km south of Hurghada.
  • mile: A camper leaves her camp, hikes 1 mile south, then 1 mile east where she sees a bear.
  • vista: Their health contains individual characteristics these data vista health insurance south florida are.
south Quotes

In a Lancashire cotton-town you could probably go for months on end without once hearing an'educated' accent, whereas there can hardly be a town in the South of England where youcould throwa brick without hitting the niece of a bishop.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

   O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South, Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves, And tell her, tell her, what I tell to thee. O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each, That bright and fierce and fickle is the South, And dark and true and tender is the North.

—Tennyson

O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Proven c° al song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim.

—Keats,John

In the South, the war is what is elsewhere: they date from it.

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

The Dutch may havetheir Holland, the Spaniard have his Spain, TheYankee to the south of us must south of us remain; For not a man dare lift a hand against the men who brag That they were born in Canada beneath the British flag.

—Johnson, Pauline

Well, chilern, whar dar is so much racket dar must be something out o' kilter. I tink dat 'twixt de niggers of de Soufandde womenat de Norf allatalkin''bout rights, de white men will be in a fix pretty soon.

—Truth, Sojourner ne¤  e Isabella

I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce. The heart of the North is dead, and the fingers of cold are corpse fingers.

—Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged!

—Booth,JohnWilkes

While the South is hardly Christ-centred, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

—O'Connor, (Mary) Flannery

   In a march of onlya few hours, I had passed from the western to the eastern hemisphere and had verified my position at the summit of the world.It was hard to realise that on the first miles of the brief march we had been travelling due north, while on the last few miles of the same march we had been travelling due south, although we had all the time been travelling precisely in the same direction.

—Peary, Robert Edwin

O tell her, Swallow that thy brood is flown: Say to her, I do but wanton in the South, But in the North long since my nest is made.

—Tennyson