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South

noun

The region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line.

The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861. Synonyms: Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, Dixie, Dixieland.

The cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees. Synonyms: due south, S, southward.

A location in the southern part of a country, region, or city.

The direction corresponding to the southward cardinal compass point.

adjective

Situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south. Antonym: north.

adverb

In a southern direction. Synonyms: in the south, to the south.

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"South" Quotes from Famous Books

... and became a fair young maiden, and she often wished for the day when she might go down to the south, that she might have a better chance of seeing the cruel gnome, and as she sat at work in her room alone she often asked the bird to sing to her, but he never sang any other songs than the two she ...

— Wonder-Box Tales • Jean Ingelow

... old Roman one, located between Conlie and Domfront, the principal part occupying some rising ground in the centre of an extensive valley. It was intended to be a training camp rather than an entrenched and fortified one, though a redoubt was erected on the south, and some works were begun on the northern and the north-eastern sides. When the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg reached Conlie after the battle of Le Mans, he expressed his surprise that the French had not fortified so good a position more seriously, and defended it with vigour. Both the railway line ...

— My Days of Adventure - The Fall of France, 1870-71 • Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

... refreshing morning, when I entered the parlor of her pleasant house, standing upon a slope beyond Jamaica Plain to the south. She was absent at the moment, and there was opportunity to look from the windows on a cheerful prospect, over orchards and meadows, to the wooded hills and the western sky. Presently Margaret appeared, bearing ...

— Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. II • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

... in business, whose interest in golf is as keen, according to his lights and limitations, as the absorption of Rembrandt in art. Suppose this citizen, having one day a loose half-hour of time to fill in the neighbourhood of South Kensington, remembers the articles he has skimmed in the papers about the Constantine Ionides bequest: suppose he strolls into the Museum and asks his way of a patient policeman to the Ionides collection. Suppose ...

— Rembrandt • Mortimer Menpes

... part of the city of York which is situated on the western bank of the Ouse there is a narrow street, called Skeldergate, running nearly north and south, parallel with the course of the river. The postern by which Skeldergate was formerly approached no longer exists; and the few old houses left in the street are disguised in melancholy modern costume of whitewash and cement. Shops of the smaller and poorer order, intermixed ...

— No Name • Wilkie Collins

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