Usually means: Direction opposite north on Earth.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word south:

General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. South, south: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. South, South, south, the South: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. south: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. south, the south: Collins English Dictionary
  5. South, south: Vocabulary.com
  6. SOuth, South, south: Wordnik
  7. South, south, the South: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. South, south: Wiktionary
  9. south: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. south: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. south: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. South, south, the south: Dictionary.com
  13. south: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. south: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. South (British band), South (European Parliament constituency), South (Heather Nova album), South (Icelandic constituency), South (Shona Laing album), South (Spain), South (U.S.), South (US), South (band), South (book), South (composition), South (disambiguation), South (surname), South (television play), South, The South (Borges story), The South (film), The South (novel), The South (short story), The South (song), The South, The south: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. South: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. south: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. South: Rhymezone
  19. south: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. south: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. South: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. south: Free Dictionary
  23. south: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. South, south: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. south: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. South: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. South: Financial dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. South (country), south: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. south: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. South: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. south, south, south: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. South: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. South: Gambling Glossary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. South: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See southing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  The southern region or area; the inhabitants thereof.
noun:  (ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction to the right-hand side of a person facing the altar.
noun:  (physics) The negative or south pole of a magnet
adjective:  Toward the south; southward.
adjective:  (meteorology, of wind) from the south.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to the south; southern.
adjective:  Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by southbound traffic.
adjective:  (ecclesiastical) Designating, or situated in, the liturgical south.
adverb:  Toward the south; southward.
adverb:  Downward.
adverb:  In an adverse direction or trend. (Mostly in go south.)
adverb:  (meteorology) Of wind, from the south.
verb:  To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south.
verb:  (astronomy) To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line.
noun:  The southern part of any region; alternative letter-case form of south.
noun:  The Global South.
noun:  (US) The south-eastern states of the United States, including many of the same states as formed the Confederacy.
noun:  (India) The southern states of India.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A placename
noun:  (US) Ellipsis of Old South.: Those states which formed the Confederacy during the American Civil War.

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