in the south

1. 1.

   in a southern direction

   “we moved south”

   Synonymssouthto the south

Questions about in the south

What does in the south mean?

in the south means "in a southern direction".

What is another word for in the south?

Close synonyms include south, to the south. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is in the south a common word?

in the south is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.