south of

idiomatic 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

There's a major split between indigenous populations in the northern parts of North America (Athabaskan populations), and everyone south of that, including all of Central and South America, as well as the ancient Clovis, New Mexico, population. —John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2025

Located around a 45 minute drive south of Louisville, Bardstown is a longtime center of whiskey production and an integral stop on Kentucky’s Bourbon Trail. —David Thomas Tao, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025

Out of that sprang a nationwide movement to avoid buying U.S. products and Canadians are canceling trips south of the border in their droves. —Jackie Northam, NPR, 28 Apr. 2025

The cold front is expected to stall south of the Kansas City area across southern Missouri into southeastern Kansas or northern Oklahoma. —Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 28 Apr. 2025

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