Adverb Turn south onto Elm Street. It's a mile south of here. The birds fly south in the winter. The company's profits have gone south in recent months. The TV show's ratings have been heading south. Noun The wind blew from the south. The birds migrate from the South. Parts of the South were hit hard by the storm. I grew up in the South. The American Civil War was between the North and the South. See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Adverb
The driver of a Kia Optima was turning left from Greensboro to Cousette Street when the car struck a Mitsubishi Lancer traveling south on Greensboro. Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 1 Sep. 2022 The bus moved into the opposite lane and hit a utility truck that was traveling south, Kilgore said. Henri Hollis, ajc, 11 Aug. 2022 Nan Brooks, 87, was a passenger in a 2014 Buick that was traveling south on Interstate 49, according to a report from the Arkansas State Police. Alexandria Brown, Arkansas Online, 11 Aug. 2022 The black Honda sedan was traveling south in the 2800 block of North Ashland Avenue when the girl lost control of the vehicle and crashed at 12:05 a.m. Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2022 When heading north, traffic is much more similar in the morning and evening than when traveling south. Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 July 2022 Investigators believe the driver of the vehicle had been traveling south on I-65 before running off the right side of the road and hitting a roadside guardrail.The Indianapolis Star, 24 July 2022 The migratory monarch butterfly is a subspecies that breeds over the summer throughout Canada and the United States before traveling south to California and Mexico for the winter. Denise Chow, NBC News, 21 July 2022 According to an arrest report, Rodriguez was stopped by a University of Kentucky police officer after his vehicle was spotted traveling south on Nicholasville Road near UK's campus without its taillights illuminated around 3:14 a.m. on May 8. Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 20 July 2022
Adjective
Craft was born in Lexington — the state's second-largest city — and was raised on her family's farm near Glasgow in south-central Kentucky.Fox News, 7 Sep. 2022 Forty years later, the New Deal moved two hundred struggling Midwestern families to the Matanuska-Susitna, or Mat-Su, Valley, in south-central Alaska, to start a farming colony. Yasmin Tayag, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2022 Shalla takes its name from Lake Shala in south-central Ethiopia, a place Gebeyehu knows well, having worked there as a surveyor. Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2022 The fires were driven in part by a severe drought in the south-central region of the state, where more than half of Alaska’s population lives. Simon Romero, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022 Mariana Arvizu, a pillar of the south Phoenix community and a member of a family whose legacy predates the Arizona Territory, died on Aug. 14 at the age of 93. Haleigh Kochanski, The Arizona Republic, 28 Aug. 2022 The rivalry between the two high school football programs on the south side of Anchorage has been running hot since South Anchorage High opened its doors in 2004. Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2022 Byers was involved in a single-vehicle motorcycle accident that occurred at I-465 eastbound near East Street on the south side of Indianapolis, police said in a news release. Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Aug. 2022 Famous for being a playground for ski and snowboard enthusiasts, the south side of the mountain receives a lot of love, rightfully so, for places like Timberline Lodge, Mount Hood Meadows and Mount Hood Skibowl.oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2022
Noun
In the south and east, Ukrainian forces have retaken around 1,000 square kilometers, Mr. Zelensky said Thursday—about 385 square miles, more than the land area of New York City—since the start of September. Isabel Coles, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022 Clouds roll in from the south and humidity creeps up Sunday morning. David Streit, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022 Earl won’t make a direct hit on Bermuda but will pass south and east of the island, according to the hurricane center. Leigh Morgan, al, 8 Sep. 2022 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that Ukraine's military had recaptured two villages in its counteroffensive against Russia that began last week in the south and east. Harold Maass, The Week, 5 Sep. 2022 CW Management still owns an 8-acre plot of land directly to the south and west of the gondola land plots. Jacob Scholl, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022 All of the Americas, north and south and central, obviously Americas and anyone from there can compete how the countries will divvy that up. Laura Johnston, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2022 Monsoon rains were expected to continue this week, mainly in the south and southwest. Zarar Khan, ajc, 27 Aug. 2022 Monsoon rains were expected to continue this week, mainly in the south and southwest. Zarar Khan, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Adverb
Middle English, from Old English sūth; akin to Old High German sund- south and probably to Old English sunne sun
First Known Use
Adverb
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Adjective
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1