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SOUTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A location in the southern part of a country, region, or city
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("south" is a kind of...):
location (a point or extent in space)
Attribute:
southern (situated in or coming from regions of the south)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
Synonyms:
Confederacy; Confederate States; Confederate States of America; Dixie; Dixieland; South
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Meronyms (parts of "South"):
slave state (any of the southern states in which slavery was legal prior to the American Civil War)
Meronyms (members of "South"):
Old Dominion; Old Dominion State; VA; Va.; Virginia (a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War)
Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)
Tenn.; Tennessee; TN; Volunteer State (a state in east central United States)
Palmetto State; S.C.; SC; South Carolina (a state in the Deep South; one of the original 13 colonies)
N.C.; NC; North Carolina; Old North State; Tar Heel State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies)
Missouri; MO; Mo.; Show Me State (a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union)
Magnolia State; Miss.; Mississippi; MS (a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War)
LA; La.; Louisiana; Pelican State (a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
Empire State of the South; GA; Ga.; Georgia; Peach State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
Everglade State; FL; Fla.; Florida; Sunshine State (a state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. In Spanish, Florida means Flowery)
AR; Ark.; Arkansas; Land of Opportunity (a state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
AL; Ala.; Alabama; Camellia State; Heart of Dixie (a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
Attribute:
south (situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south)
southern (in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Meronyms (parts of "South"):
Tenn.; Tennessee; TN; Volunteer State (a state in east central United States)
Palmetto State; S.C.; SC; South Carolina (a state in the Deep South; one of the original 13 colonies)
N.C.; NC; North Carolina; Old North State; Tar Heel State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies)
Magnolia State; Miss.; Mississippi; MS (a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War)
Free State; Maryland; MD; Md.; Old Line State (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)
LA; La.; Louisiana; Pelican State (a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
Empire State of the South; GA; Ga.; Georgia; Peach State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
Old Dominion; Old Dominion State; VA; Va.; Virginia (a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War)
Carolina; Carolinas (the area of the states of North Carolina and South Carolina)
Piedmont (the plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains: parts of Virginia and North and South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama)
Tidewater; Tidewater region (the coastal plain of the South: eastern parts of Virginia and North Carolina and South Carolina and Georgia)
Deep South (the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery)
Gulf States (a region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas)
Meronyms (members of "South"):
Southerner (an American who lives in the South)
Attribute:
southern (in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line)
Domain member region:
hoecake (thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern))
KKK; Klan; Ku Klux Klan (a secret society of white Southerners in the United States; was formed in the 19th century to resist the emancipation of slaves; used terrorist tactics to suppress Black people)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "South"):
AL; Ala.; Alabama; Camellia State; Heart of Dixie (a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
Instance hyponyms:
Old South (the South of the United States before the American Civil War)
Holonyms ("South" is a part of...):
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees
Synonyms:
due south; S; south; southward
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("south" is a kind of...):
cardinal compass point (one of the four main compass points)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The direction corresponding to the southward cardinal compass point
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("south" is a kind of...):
direction (the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south
Example:
the south entrance
Classified under:
Similar:
southwestward (toward the southwest)
southwest; southwesterly (coming from the southwest)
southwest; southwesterly; southwestern (situated in or oriented toward the southwest)
southeastward (toward the southeast)
southeast; southeasterly (coming from the southeast)
southeast; southeasterly; southeastern (situated in or oriented toward the southeast)
southernmost; southmost (situated farthest south)
southerly; southern (situated in or oriented toward the south)
southerly; southern (from the south; used especially of wind)
south-central (situated in the southern part of a centrally located area in some geographical region)
southbound; southward (moving toward the south)
Attribute:
Confederacy; Confederate States; Confederate States of America; Dixie; Dixieland; South (the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861)
Antonym:
north (situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the north)
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a southern direction
Example:
we moved south
Synonyms:
in the south; south; to the south
Classified under:
Context examples:
“But, lady,” cried poor Alleyne in great distress, “how can I say that it was to the south of the road when I know well that it was four miles to the north.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Oh! How unlike it was to the blue seasons of the south!
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
"It is the same at the South," said another, "for I have been there and seen it. The South is the country of the Quadlings."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Also called: American trypanosomiasis, South American trypanosomiasis
(Chagas Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
A country in Central South America, southwest of Brazil.
(Bolivia, Plurinational State of, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
"Well," I interrupted, "any large South American animal—a tapir, for example."
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And, moreover, if you must go to the sea, it had better not have been to South End.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
South or north, I know a black cloud when I see it; and you must not set forward while it is so threatening.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
“I never look at it,” said Catherine, as they walked along the side of the river, “without thinking of the south of France.”
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
After three years expectation that things would mend, I accepted an advantageous offer from Captain William Prichard, master of the Antelope, who was making a voyage to the South Sea.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
