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# south

«south» in Mova's school dictionary: **one of the four main directions, towards the bottom of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (the south); adjective (south, southern); adverb (south)

### meaning for a pupil

1) South is one of the four main directions, towards the bottom of most maps, opposite to north. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/south/#m1)

2) The south of a country or place is the part that lies in that direction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/south/#m2)

3) South also means going towards the south. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/south/#m3)

4) The South Pole is the most southern point of the Earth, in Antarctica. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/south/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a direction of travel; opposite to north, so going back takes away from the distance from the start; the same direction adds. In geography: the southern half of the world has summer in December; Australia and New Zealand are in the south. Phrases: to the south, south of, down south, south-east, south-west, the South Pole, Southern Hemisphere.

### examples

- The farm is 8 km south of the village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/south/#x1)
- She drove 30 km south and then 10 km north. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/south/#x2)
- The south wall is 6 m long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/south/#x3)
- They sailed south for 3 days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/south/#x4)
- Penguins live near the South Pole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/south/#x5)
- Many birds fly south for the winter in Canada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/south/#x6)
- The south of England is warmer than the north. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/south/#x7)
- The wind is blowing from the south. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/south/#x8)

### note

Small letter for the direction, capital in names (South Africa, the South Pole). Opposite: north. Opposite directions take away to find how far from the start; the same direction adds. Trap: the whole distance travelled is the sum of all parts. Trap: south is not always «hot»: the South Pole is the coldest place on Earth.

### In the corpora

- [Many TV cartoons are written in one country and drawn in another, often in South Korea, Japan or the Philippines.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons/13/)
- [American alligators live in swamps, rivers and lakes in the south-eastern USA and recovered from being endangered once hunting was controlled.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/15/)
- [The bullet ant of South America has one of the most painful stings of any insect.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges/13/)
- [Venus flytraps grow wild only in one small area of North and South Carolina in the USA.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck/9/)
- [There are about 400 kinds of parrot, most of them in warm places, with the most kinds in Australia and South America.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/303-parrots-of-the-world-macaws-cockatoos-african-greys-lorikeets-and-the-cheeky-kea/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «south» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/south/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.