south of

phrase

of a number or value

: less than

Other than crafty Chicago White Sox lefty Dallas Keuchel, no other starter with a strikeout percentage as low as Wheeler had an ERA south of 4.00 in 2020.

—Joe Giglio

… the wine list could use a few more bargains; I counted only a handful of bottles costing south of $60.

—Scott Mowbray

The North Carolina Tar Heels' star quarterback, who averaged more than 300 yards per game and completed nearly 70 percent of his passes in the regular season, went into the fourth quarter of the 2021 Orange Bowl with only 128 passing yards and a completion percentage south of 60.

—David Wilson

compare north of

Examples of south of in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The aircraft carrier sailed a few hundred miles south of Bermuda for the launch. — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 6 Sep. 2026

Associated Press journalists waiting at a checkpoint south of the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon saw a convoy of ICRC vehicles heading toward the Naqoura border crossing Friday morning and later return. — Fadi Tawil, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Yet just a year earlier, none of those clubs had noticed how the young winger had begun to shine in La Liga’s lower reaches with Leganes, a small club to the south of Madrid, after being promoted from the team’s reserve side in Spain’s fifth tier. — Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026

The vehicle chase ended near Galilee Road, about five miles south of where the chase began. — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1986, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for south of

• above
• foxglove
• hereof
• thereof
• whereof
• dove
• glove
• love
• shove
• hereinabove