south

1. 1.

   situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south

   “the south entrance”

   Antonymsnorth

   Similarsouthboundsouth-centralsoutherlysouthernmostsoutheastsoutheasterlysoutheastwardsouthwest

1. 1.

   in a southern direction

   “we moved south”

   Synonymsto the southin the south

Other forms of south

plural

souths·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about south

What does south mean?

south means "the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in south?

south has 1 syllable: south. In IPA it is /ˈsaʊθ/.

What is another word for south?

Close synonyms include Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, Dixie, Dixieland. 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.

What is the opposite of south?

The recorded antonyms are north.

Is south a common word?

south is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.