Southerly
['sʌðəlɪ] or ['sʌðɚli]
Definition
(adj.) from the south; used especially of wind; 'a hot southerly wind'; 'southern breezes'; 'the winds are southerly' .
(adj.) situated in or oriented toward the south; 'a southern exposure'; 'took a southerly course' .
(adv.) from the south; 'a wind blew southerly'.
(adv.) toward the south; 'the ship turned southerly'.
Checker: Thelma--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Southern.
Typed by Cyril
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Southern, south.
Typed by Alice
Examples
- I am always serious, but just now I am a little excited by the glorious fact that a southerly wind and a cloudy sky proclaim a hunting evening. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Hancock who had the lead had marched easterly to Guiney's Station, on the Fredericksburg Railroad, thence southerly to Bowling Green and Milford. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The autumn of that year was a stormy one, and there was a long succession of southerly gales. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He had a fine voice; sang A southerly wind and a cloudy sky; and gave the whoop in chorus with general applause. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The most southerly of these roads is known as the Orange Court House Plank Road, the northern one as the Orange Turnpike. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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