TO THE SOUTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does to the south mean? 

• TO THE SOUTH (adverb)
  The adverb TO THE SOUTH has 1 sense:

1. in a southern direction

  Familiarity information: TO THE SOUTH used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TO THE SOUTH (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a southern direction

Synonyms:

in the south; south; to the south

Context example:

we moved south

 Context examples 

“By the last guns the boats were bearing away slightly to the south’ard.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“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)

To continue our reasoning: if these people did not go by the road, they must have traversed the country to the north of the house or to the south of the house.

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

Brine in regions poleward of about 67.5° to the north and about 72.5° to the south could have oxygen concentrations high enough for simple sponges.

(Simple animals could live in Martian brines, Wikinews)

Then I carefully paced off five to the east and two to the south. It brought me to the very threshold of the old door.

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

Then he surveyed the heavens and ran his eye along the white sky-line to the south.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

At midday the sky to the south warmed to rose-colour, and marked where the bulge of the earth intervened between the meridian sun and the northern world.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Faces to the south, then, and quick march!

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

Exactly, for Amy keeps me pointing due west most of the time, with only an occasional whiffle round to the south, and I haven't had an easterly spell since I was married.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I walked along beside the surf with great enjoyment, till, thinking I was now got far enough to the south, I took the cover of some thick bushes and crept warily up to the ridge of the spit.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)