to the south

1. 1.

   in a southern direction

   “we moved south”

   Synonymssouthin the south

Questions about to the south

What does to the south mean?

to the south means "in a southern direction".

What is another word for to the south?

Close synonyms include south, in 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 to the south a common word?

to 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.