SOUTH SIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does south side mean? 

• SOUTH SIDE (noun)
  The noun SOUTH SIDE has 1 sense:

1. the side that is on the south

  Familiarity information: SOUTH SIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTH SIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The side that is on the south

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("south side" is a kind of...):

side (a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location)

 Context examples 

I must make him know that I will not be tricked on the south side of Everingham, any more than on the north: that I will be master of my own property.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I drove to the place—about two miles on the south side of Esher.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the two short sides of the house, east and west, there were only two loopholes; on the south side where the porch was, two again; and on the north side, five.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I went whilst my courage was fresh straight to the window on the south side, and at once got outside on the narrow ledge of stone which runs around the building on this side.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

On the 17th, we came in full view of a great island, or continent (for we knew not whether;) on the south side whereof was a small neck of land jutting out into the sea, and a creek too shallow to hold a ship of above one hundred tons.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In Kennington Road, and within a few hundred yards of Morse Hudson’s shop, there lives a well-known medical practitioner, named Dr. Barnicot, who has one of the largest practices upon the south side of the Thames.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We struck the enclosure about the middle of the south side, and almost at the same time, seven mutineers—Job Anderson, the boatswain, at their head—appeared in full cry at the southwestern corner.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"We can't argue about it here," Tom said impatiently as a truck gave out a cursing whistle behind us. "You follow me to the south side of Central Park, in front of the Plaza."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)