- towards the south
- This room faces south.
- The train was heading south to Marseilles.
- south of something nearer to the south than something
- They live ten miles south of Bristol.
- south of something (informal, North American English or finance) less or lower than something
- The drug is achieving revenues just south of $1 billion per quarter.
- Interest rates will end somewhere south of 6.5%.
opposite north
Word OriginOld English sūth, of Germanic origin; related to Low German sud.
Idioms
See south in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarydown south
- (informal) to or in the south of a country
- They've gone to live down south.
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