Definitions for southerly

southerly south·er·ly

Spelling: [suhth -er-lee]
IPA: /ˈsʌð ər li/

Southerly is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 550 anagrams from letters in southerly (ehlorstuy).

Definitions for southerly

noun

  1. a wind that blows from the south.

adjective, adverb

  1. toward the south:
  2. (especially of a wind) coming from the south:

Origin of southerly

1545-55; south + -erly (see easterly)

Examples for southerly

The Paradise Glacier is one of several on the southerly slope.

Formerly rare, now abundant in all the southerly third of the Park.

Mount Thorvald Nilsen was the most southerly we could see from this point.

They noted, however, that the party started in a southerly direction.

Unexpected results had ensued from these trips in a southerly direction.

The adventurers had long passed the most southerly point of Spanish influence.

southerly, in North latitude; the reverse in the Southern hemisphere.

The most southerly latitude attained on this voyage was 67 50', in long.

But they have an uneasy feeling that he knows a hawk from a hernshaw when the wind is southerly.

Pennsylvania was about the southerly limit of their migrations.

Word Value for southerly
Scrable

15

Words with friends

15

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