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 repository forms a core section of the Vector complex, located about 130 kilometers north of Kyiv and 20 kilometers south of the Belarusian border. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026

Their objective, to keep the fire east of Stampede Dam Road, west of the Nevada state line, south of Ladybug Peak and north of Hinton Road. — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026

Once those sections reopen, work will continue on Book Road south of 95th Street extending to the south side Frontier Park before turning west into the ComEd right-of-way, James said. — Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026

There are a total of five project areas that make up the roughly 500-mile Big Bend region stretching from an area of Hudspeth County south of El Paso to Lake Amistad. — ABC News, 18 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