souths

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of south.

   Travelers describe the many souths of the world as sharing a slower, warmer rhythm of life.

   Economists distinguish the wealthy North from the various souths it depends on for labor.

   Note

   A plural that belongs to the countable side of south. The noun can be counted or not, and the plural reads most naturally with the regional meaning, a southern area and the people in it. That is why writers can speak of the many souths of a country or of the world. The same spelling also serves as the present-tense verb, so the souths of Europe and the sun souths are different words.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of south.

   Note

   Two quite different actions share this form. A ship or a flock that souths turns or travels southward. A star or the sun that souths comes to the meridian, crossing the north–south line. The subject usually settles which is meant: a heavenly body points to the meridian reading. In both meanings the verb takes no object; nothing is southed, something simply souths.

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