The south

Definition

south /saƱθ/ [U, sing] ( abbr S ) n ၁။ (usu the south ) ေတာင္အရပ္။ ေတာင္ဘက္။ ဒကၡိဏ။ winds from the south ❍ The town is to the south of (ie further south than) the capital. ❍ Which way is south? Compare EAST, NORTH, WEST ၂။ the south, the South ေတာင္ပိုင္း။ have a house in the South of France ❍ He came to the south to look for a job. See also THE DEEP SOUTH adj (က) ေတာင္ပိုင္း။ ေတာင္။ South Wales ❍ the South Pacific ❍ grow roses on a south wall ❍ on the south coast. (ခ) ေတာင္။ a south wind (ie blowing from the south). adv ေတာင္ဘက္။ a south-facing garden ❍ birds flying south for winter ❍ The ship was sailing due south. ❏ down south [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေတာင္ပိုင္း။ အေၾက။ ေအာက္။ go down south for a few days ❍ They used to live in Ohio but they moved down south. ❏ south-east n [sing], adj, adv ( abbr SE ) အေရွ႕ေတာင္။ live in the south-east ❍ a south-east wind ❍ a house facing south-east. ❏ south-easterly adj (က) အေရွ႕ေတာင္။ (ခ) အေရွ႕ေတာင္ (ေလ)။ ❏ south-eastern /-'i:stǝn/ adj အေရွ႕ေတာင္ပိုင္း။ the south-eastern states of the USA. ❏ south-eastwards /-i:stwǝdz/ (also south-eastward ) adv အေရွ႕ေတာင္ယြန္းယြန္း။ ❏ the South Pole n [sing] ေတာင္ဝင္႐ိုးစြန္း။ ❍ GLOBE ❏ southward /'saƱθwǝd/ adj ေတာင္(စူးစူး၊ ယြန္းယြန္း)။ a southward course. ❏ southwards /'sǝƱθwǝdz/ (also southward ) adv ေတာင္စူးစူး။ ေတာင္ယြန္းယြန္း။ driving southwards. ❍ FORWARD 2 ❏ south-west n [sing], adj, adv ( abbr SW ) အေနာက္ ေတာင္။ ❏ south-westerly adj (က) အေနာက္ေတာင္။ travel in a south-westerly direction. (ခ) အေနာက္ေတာင္(ေလ)။ ❏ south-western /-'westǝn/ adj အေနာက္ေတာင္။ ❏ south-westwards /-'westwǝdz/ (also south-westward ) adv အေနာက္ေတာင္ယြန္းယြန္း။

Examples

1. Driving from south to north
2. Their business is in the south of the city.
3. Did you like living in the south?