–noun

1.	a cardinal point of the compass lying directly opposite north. Abbreviation: S

2.	the direction in which this point lies.

3.	(usually initial capital letter) a region or territory situated in this direction.

4.	the South, the general area south of Pennsylvania and the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi, consisting mainly of those states that formed the Confederacy.

–adjective

5.	lying toward or situated in the south; directed or proceeding toward the south.

6.	coming from the south, as a wind.

–adverb

7.	to, toward, or in the south.

8.	Informal. into a state of serious decline, loss, or the like: Sales went south during the recession.

–verb (used without object)

9.	to turn or move in a southerly direction.

10.	Astronomy. to cross the meridian.

–noun

1.	a former country in E Asia, on a peninsula SE of Manchuria and between the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea: a kingdom prior to 1910; under Japanese rule 1910–45; now divided at 38° N into North Korea and South Korea. Compare Korean War.

2.	Democratic People's Republic of, official name of North Korea.

3.	Republic of, official name of South Korea.

–verb (used without object)

1.	to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip; journey: to travel for pleasure.

2.	to move or go from one place or point to another.

3.	to proceed or advance in any way.

4.	to go from place to place as a representative of a business firm.

5.	to associate or consort: He travels in a wealthy crowd.

6.	Informal. to move with speed.

7.	to pass, or be transmitted, as light or sound.

8.	Basketball. walk (def. 9).

9.	to move in a fixed course, as a piece of mechanism.

–verb (used with object)

10.	to travel, journey, or pass through or over, as a country or road.

11.	to journey or traverse (a specified distance): We traveled a hundred miles.

12.	to cause to journey; ship: to travel logs downriver.

–noun

13.	the act of traveling; journeying, esp. to distant places: to travel to other planets.

14.	travels, a. journeys; wanderings: to set out on one's travels. b. journeys as the subject of a written account or literary work: a book of travels. c. such an account or work.

< 3e8 td>the coming and going of persons or conveyances along a way of passage; traffic: an increase in travel on state roads.

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16.	Machinery. a. the complete movement of a moving part, esp. a reciprocating part, in one direction, or the distance traversed; stroke. b. length of stroke.

17.	movement or passage in general: to reduce the travel of food from kitchen to table.

–adjective

18.	used or designed for use while traveling: a travel alarm clock.