South

South is most commonly a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography.

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South is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. It is the opposite of North and at right angles to East and West.

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By convention, the bottom side of a map is South.

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To go south using a compass for navigation, set a bearing or azimuth of 180?.

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True south is the direction towards the southern end of the axis about which the earth rotates, called the South Pole. The South Pole is located in Antarctica. Magnetic south is the direction towards the south magnetic pole, some distance away from the south geographic pole.

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It is the direction to the right of an observer facing east.

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The etymology of South can be traced back to the Old English word suth, derived from the Old High German word sund, and perhaps sunne in Old English with sense of "the region of the sun."

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Noun: A noun, or noun substantive, is a word or phrase that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance or quality. Nouns are parts of speech and can be classified in different ways such as proper nouns (e.g. "Janet") versus common nouns (e.g. "girl"), or collective nouns (e.g. "bunch", "herd"). N...

Adjective: An adjective is a part of speech which modifies a noun, usually making its meaning more specific. Adjectives are used in a predicative or attributive manner. In some languages, attributive adjectives precede the noun. This is the case in the Germanic languages, to which the English language belongs....

Adverb: An adverb is a part of speech that usually serves...

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