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IN THE SOUTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does in the south mean?
• IN THE SOUTH (adverb)
The adverb IN THE SOUTH has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: IN THE SOUTH used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a southern direction
Synonyms:
in the south; south; to the south
Context example:
we moved south
Context examples
A state in the south of Mexico on the Pacific Ocean.
(Oaxaca, NCI Thesaurus)
Let the sewers serve and the minstrels play, while we drain a cup to the brave days that are before us in the south!
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You shall go to a place I have in the south of France: a whitewashed villa on the shores of the Mediterranean.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Nutrient deficiencies were found less in the wheat-eating northern and western areas of the country than in the south and east, where rice is the staple food.
(Course grains better than rice for health, environment, SciDev.Net)
His name was Evans, but he afterwards changed it, like myself, and he is now a rich and prosperous man in the south of England.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was barely furnished with odd things, which seemed to have never been used; the furniture was something the same style as that in the south rooms, and was covered with dust.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It made them mad to think of all they had done in the south, and then to see this saucy frigate flashing her money before their eyes.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The authors note that if the ice shell was slightly thinner in the south to begin with, it would lead to runaway heating there over time.
(Powering Saturn's Active Ocean Moon, NASA)
Returning to France, I spent some months in a research into the coal-tar derivatives, which I conducted in a laboratory at Montpellier, in the south of France.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
What was his horror one evening to meet in the streets the very man who had initiated him in Naples, the giant Gorgiano, a man who had earned the name of ‘Death’ in the south of Italy, for he was red to the elbow in murder!
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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