# south
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English south, from Old English sūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *sunþr, from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą (whence also West Frisian súd, Dutch zuid, German Süd, Danish syd).

### Pronunciation

* enPR: south
* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /saʊθ/
* (Canada) IPA: /sʌʊθ/
* (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /sæoθ/
* (Obsolete) IPA: /suːθ/
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* Audio (UK):(file)
* Rhymes: -aʊθ

### Noun

south (countable and uncountable, plural souths)
* The direction towards the pole to the right-hand side of someone facing east, specifically 180°, or (on another celestial object) the direction towards the pole lying on the southern side of the invariable plane.
    Alternative form: (abbreviation) S
    Germany is south of Denmark.
* The southern region or area; the inhabitants thereof. [circa 1300]
** 1996, Andrew W. Conrad, Alma Rubal-Lopez, Post-Imperial English: Status Change in Former British and American Colonies, 1940-1990, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 343:Just before independence (in 1955) the military garrison in the south rebelled and that was the beginning of a civil war between the north and the south ...
** 2014, Fanar Haddad, Sectarianism in Iraq: Antagonistic Visions of Unity, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 131:What was said [prior to 2003] is that the south rebelled. Even then; rebelled? What rebelled? Who was supporting Saddam other than the people of the south?
** 2019, Allan Thompson, Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN, page 322:When Nimeiri ended that autonomy in 1983, the south took up arms. This Second Sudanese Civil War ended only after four years of formal talks […]
* (ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction to the right-hand side of a person facing the altar.
** 1998, Leonel L. Mitchell, Pastoral and Occasional Liturgies: A Ceremonial Guide, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 49:If candidates stand on the liturgical south facing the presider and liturgical assistants on the liturgical north, it will present better visual lines for the congregation than if they stand facing east and west with their backs toward the congregation.
** 2002, John L. Hooker, In the Shadows of Holy Week: The Office of Tenebrae, Church Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:It is to be situated in the chancel on the right (i.e., liturgical south) side of the church.
** 2009, Carol Mary Richardson, Reclaiming Rome: Cardinals in the Fifteenth Century, BRILL, →ISBN, page 389:It was moved from its original location in 1507 hardly a decade after it was completed, to the bottom of the liturgical south aisle along with the free-standing chapel of the relic of the lance.
** 2014 April 11, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706–2013, Bloomington, Ind.: WestBow Press, →ISBN, pages 364–365:[…] Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated at ecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), not geographical or magnetic southeast. Thus, […] The north side faces the river (beyond the subdivision behind the church), and the south side, Ashley River Road. […] The pulpit and reading desk are at ecclesiastical northeast, and the organ pipes and 1706 memorial at ecclesiastical south. At St. Andrew's, ecclesiastical north, south, east, and west correspond to geographical northeast, southwest, southeast, and northwest. Unless otherwise indicated, compass directions given in this book are ecclesiastical, not geographical, reference points.
** 2017, Cameron Macdonell, Ghost Storeys: Ralph Adams Cram, Modern Gothic Media, and Deconstructive Microhistory at a Canadian Church, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN:The new St Mary's Anglican Church, Walkerville, has an attached rectory flanking to the liturgical south and an attached parish hall flanking to the liturgical north, both half-timbered in the Tudor Revival style. [Referring to a church that is oriented SSE, making "south" WSW]
* (physics) The negative or south pole of a magnet

#### Coordinate terms

compass points:
| northwest | north | northeast |
| west | | east |
| southwest | south | southeast |

#### Derived terms

* down south
* east by south
* global south
* Global South
* go down south
* go south
* head south
* magnetic south
* move south
* north and south
* South Acre
* South Bloomfield
* southbound
* south by east
* south by west
* southeast
* southed
* southerly
* southern
* southerner
* South Estonian
* South Frontenac
* southing
* southland, Southland
* South Papua
* south-seeking pole
* south side, southside
* south-southeast
* south-southwest
* south temperate zone
* southward
* southwardly
* southwards
* South Weald
* southwest
* south wind
* turn south

#### Translations
### Adjective

south (not comparable)
* Toward the south; southward.
* (meteorology, of wind) from the south.
* Of or pertaining to the south; southern.
* Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by southbound traffic.
    south highway 1
* (ecclesiastical) Designating, or situated in, the liturgical south.
** 2014, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706-2013, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 365:Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated at ecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), not geographical or magnetic southeast. Thus, […] The north side faces the river (beyond the subdivision behind the church), and the south side, Ashley River Road.

#### Derived terms

* Almaguer South
* Bacsil South
* Barangay South
* Cabungaan South
* Dibua South
* Guanan South
* Maelor South
* Matabeleland South
* Navotas South
* Otonabee-South Monaghan
* Perth South
* Poblacion South
* Sabang South
* San Antonio South
* South Acre
* South Acton
* South Africa
* South African Standard Time
* Southall
* South Alley
* South Alloa
* South Amboy
* South America
* Southampton
* South Anston
* South Arm
* South Australia
* South Ayrshire
* South Bank
* South Barrow
* South Beach Diet
* South Beach diet
* South Beaches
* South Beaver Dam
* South Bend
* South Bird's Head
* South Bloomfield
* South Brent
* South Brisbane
* South Bucks
* South Burnett
* South Burnie
* Southbury
* South Cadbury
* South Cadbury and Sutton Montis
* South Caloocan
* South Cambridgeshire
* South Carlton
* South Carolina
* South Carver
* South Cave
* South Central
* South Centro
* South Chicago
* Southchurch
* Southcote
* South Coventry
* South Croydon
* South Dakota
* South Darenth
* South Darley
* South Derbyshire
* South Downs
* South Drive
* South Dundas
* South Elmsall
* Southend-on-Sea
* South Esk
* Southey
* South Foreland
* South Frontenac
* South Fulton
* South Gippsland
* South Glamorgan
* South Glengarry
* South Gloucestershire
* South Godstone
* South Gorin
* South Gosforth
* South Gyle
* South Hampstead
* South Hampton
* South Hams
* South Hanningfield
* South Harefield
* South Harrison
* South Harrow
* South Haven
* South Hayling
* South Heath
* South Hetton
* South Hiendley
* South Holland
* South Huron
* South Hylton
* Southington
* South Island
* South Jeolla
* South Kelsey
* South Kensington
* South Kesteven
* South Kilburn
* South Kingstown
* South Kirkby
* South Lakeland
* South Lambeth
* South Lanarkshire
* South Lebanon
* South Leigh
* South Leith
* South Liberty
* South Littleton
* South Luffenham
* South Lynn
* South Marston
* South Merstham
* South Molton
* South Muskham
* South Nesting
* South Newsham
* South Newton
* South Norfolk
* South Normanton
* South Northamptonshire
* South Norwood
* South Nutfield
* South Ockendon
* South Orkney Islands
* South Otterington
* South Oxfordshire
* South Park
* South Pasadena
* South Pelaw
* South Perth
* South Petherton
* South Plainfield
* South Pole, south pole
* Southport
* South Queensferry
* South Ribble
* South Rock
* South Ronaldsay
* Southrop
* South Ross
* South Ruislip
* South Shields
* South Shore
* south side
* South Somerset
* South Staffordshire
* South Stoke
* South Stormont
* South Street
* South Sudan
* South Tottenham
* Southtown
* South Triangle
* South Tyne
* South Tyneside
* South Uist
* South Villazar
* South Wairarapa
* South Wales
* South Walsham
* Southwark
* South Weald
* Southwell
* South Western Slopes
* South West Rocks
* South West Slopes
* South Wheatland
* South Wigston
* South Willingham
* South Wimbledon
* South Wingfield
* South Witham
* Southwood
* South Woodford
* South Woodham Ferrers
* South Wymondham
* South Yardley
* South Yarra
* Sudbury
* Suffolk
* Surrey
* Sussex
* Sutherland
* Sutton

#### Translations

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### Adverb

south (not comparable)
* Toward the south; southward.
* Downward.
* In an adverse direction or trend. (Mostly in go south.)
    His fortunes have been going south ever since he was tricked into investing in that ostrich farm.
* (meteorology) Of wind, from the south.

#### Translations

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### Verb

south (third-person singular simple present souths, present participle southing, simple past and past participle southed)
* To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south.
* (astronomy) To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line.
    The moon souths at nine.

### Anagrams

* Houts, Huots, houts, shout, thous

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* souþ, suþ, sowth, suthe, souþe, suth, souht
* zouth (Kent)

### Etymology

From Old English sūþ, in turn from Proto-West Germanic *sunþr, from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /suːθ/
* Rhymes: -uːθ

### Noun

south
* south, southernness
* A location to the south; the south
* The south wind

#### Coordinate terms

* (compass point): north, est, west

#### Related terms

* southerne
* Suffolk

#### Descendants

* English: south
* Scots: sooth
* Yola: zouth

#### References

* “sǒuth, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29-03-2018.

### Adjective

south
* south, southern
* At the south

#### Descendants

* English: south
* Scots: sooth

#### References

* “sǒuth, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29-03-2018.

### Adverb

south
* To the south, southwards, southbound
* From the south, southern
* In the south

#### Descendants

* English: south
* Scots: sooth

#### References

* “sǒuth, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29-03-2018.