south

south is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, adjective, adverb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That one of the four cardinal points directly opposite to the north; the region or direction to the right or direction to the right of a person who faces the east. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. That one of the four cardinal points directly opposite to the north; the region or direction to the right or direction to the right of a person who faces the east.
2. noun. A country, region, or place situated farther to the south than another; the southern section of a country.
3. noun. Specifically: That part of the United States which is south of Mason and Dixon's line. See under Line.
4. noun. The wind from the south.
5. adjective. Lying toward the south; situated at the south, or in a southern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the south, or coming from the south; blowing from the south; southern; as, the south pole.
6. adverb. Toward the south; southward.
7. adverb. From the south; as, the wind blows south.
8. intransitive verb. To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south.
9. intransitive verb. To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line; -- said chiefly of the moon; as, the moon souths at nine.
10. noun. a location in the southern part of a country, region, or city
11. noun. the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

    Synonyms: confederacy, dixie, dixieland

12. noun. the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line
13. noun. the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees

    Synonyms: southward

14. noun. the direction corresponding to the southward cardinal compass point
15. adjective. situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south

    "the south entrance"

16. adverb. in a southern direction

    "we moved south"

Synonyms

confederacy, dixie, dixieland, southward

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in south:

shout, thous

Common word forms

souths, southed, souther, southly, southing, southness

Words from these letters

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