Definitions
Direction opposite north
Word origin
From Middle English south, from Old English sūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *sunþr (“southern”), from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą (“south”), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”).
Used in a sentence
“Germany is south of Denmark.”
“Just before independence (in 1955) the military garrison in the south rebelled and that was the beginning of a civil war between the north and the south ...”
“What was said [prior to 2003] is that the south rebelled. Even then; rebelled? What rebelled? Who was supporting Saddam other than the people of the south?”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer5 curated clues
01“Compass bottom”5 letters
02“Direction opposite north”5 letters
03“Map-bottom direction”5 letters
04“Opposite of north”5 letters
05“Down on a map”5 letters
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