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Definition: Southbound |
SouthboundAdjective1. Moving toward the south; "a southbound train". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "southbound" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references) |
Synonym: SouthboundSynonym: southward (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Southbound |
| English words defined with "southbound": southward. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Southbound Duckling (1955) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Aberdeen Station, Pennsylvania Railroad, Aberdeen, Maryland. Northbound station, from southbound shelter. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Crescent Limited train wreck. Southern Railroad train southbound over Anacostia River near Kenilworth. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "101 on the 101" by Kd Kelly Commentary: "This is the last and fastest of my speedometer pictures - taken on the 101 southbound in the early afternoon. it's blurry, but remember, i was going a hundred one miles per hour in a 95 buick regal. taking pictures. i had a low fuel light on too, but i mi" |
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| "Southbound" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Southbound" is used about 84 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 84 | 36,109 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "southbound": southbound-only. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
southbound | 26 |
beat southbound | 9 |
35 southbound | 4 |
band southbound | 3 |
record southbound | 2 |
allman lyrics southbound | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "southbound"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | пътуващ на юг. (various references) | |
Chinese | 向南 (southward). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 南行 , 南航 (sailing south). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | なんこう (mild steel, ointment, sailing south, salve, southern lights, southern suburbs, stormy passage). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | outhboundsay.(various references) | |
Russian | направляющийся на юг, движущийся на юг. (various references) | |
Swedish | sydgående. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Southbound" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: southband, Southbend. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "southbound" (pronounced sou"thbou'nd) |
| 5 | -th b ou' n d | earthbound. |
| 4 | -b ou' n d | eastbound, hidebound, homebound, outbound, snowbound, spellbound, westbound. |
| 3 | -ou' n d | background, battleground, campground, fairground, foreground, foxhound, greyhound, horehound, playground, runaround, turnaround, underground. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-h-n-o-o-s-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: outbound. | |
-3 letters: boutons, obtunds, unhoods. | |
-4 letters: bhoots, booths, boston, bounds, bouton, bundts, dobson, donuts, doubts, hounds, nodous, obtund, stound, tondos, unhood, unshod, unshut. | |
-5 letters: bhoot, bhuts, bonds, bonus, boons, boost, booth, boots, boson, bosun, bound, bouts, bunds, bundt, bunts, donut, doubt, dunts, hobos, hoods, hoots, hound, hunts, nodus, outdo, shoon, shoot, shout, shunt, snood. | |
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