souths

Noun

south (countable and uncountable, plural souths)

1. The direction towards the pole to the right-hand side of someone facing east, specifically 180°, or (on another celestial object) the direction towards the pole lying on the southern side of the invariable plane.
   • Germany is south of Denmark.
2. The southern region or area; the inhabitants thereof.
   • 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 ...1996, Andrew W. Conrad, Alma Rubal-Lopez, Post-Imperial English: Status Change in Former British and American Colonies, 1940-1990, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 343
3. In a church: the direction to the right-hand side of a person facing the altar.
   • If candidates stand on the liturgical south facing the presider and liturgical assistants on the liturgical north, it will present better visual lines for the congregation than if they stand facing east and west with their backs toward the congregation.1998, Leonel L. Mitchell, Pastoral and Occasional Liturgies: A Ceremonial Guide, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 49
4. The negative or south pole of a magnet.

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