📖 S — The English dictionary · page 73

source — Everyday, meaning 1: A source is where something comes from, like the source of a river or a source of light.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A source is a book, website or person where you get information.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To source means to find where to get something from.↗ Example: The Sun is a source of light.↗ · Find the source of the river on the map.↗ · Milk is a good source of calcium.↗ · Check your sources before you believe something online.↗ · The diary is a primary source from the war.↗ · A torch is a light source.↗ · Where did you find that information?↗ What's your source?↗ · Wind and sun are clean sources of energy.↗ · Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive, https://archive.sacred-texts.com/jud/yetzirah.htm .↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · Source: https://www.sefaria.org/api/v3/texts/Sefer%20Yetzirah%20Gra%20Version?version=english%7CSefer+Yezirah%2C+trans.↗ +by+Isidor+Kalisch.↗ +New+York%2C+1877 Sefaria versionTitle: Sefer Yezirah, trans. by Isidor Kalisch.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/SepherYetzirah (/Preface, /Introduction, /SepherYetzirah), fetched via index.php?action=render on 2026-10-17.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

sourdough — Everyday, meaning 1: Sourdough is bread made with a starter, a mix of flour and water full of wild yeast and bacteria, instead of packet yeast; it tastes slightly sour.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sourdough starter is the bubbly mixture kept alive and «fed» with flour and water to make this bread.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (US, old) A sourdough was an old-timer in Alaska or the Yukon, especially a gold prospector.↗ Example: We had sourdough toast for breakfast.↗ · Our sourdough starter bubbles because of the wild yeast.↗ · Feed the starter with flour and water every day.↗ · Sourdough tastes a bit sour because of the bacteria.↗ · The bakery sells a crusty sourdough loaf.↗ · Gas bubbles from the yeast make holes in sourdough.↗ · San Francisco is famous for its sourdough.↗

sourness — Everyday, meaning 1: A sharp, acid taste, like lemons or vinegar.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A bad-tempered, bitter or unfriendly mood or feeling.↗ Example: The sourness of the lemon made my face screw up.↗ · Add sugar to reduce the sourness of the rhubarb.↗ · Our tongue can taste sourness, sweetness, saltiness, bitterness and umami.↗ · There was a sourness between the two friends after the argument.↗ · The milk had a sourness that told us it was off.↗ · His sourness spoiled the party.↗

souslik — Everyday, meaning 1: A souslik is a small ground squirrel that lives in burrows on the grassy plains (steppes) of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, including Ukraine.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is also spelled «suslik»; the word comes from Russian.↗ Example: A souslik stood up on its back legs and whistled a warning.↗ · Sousliks dig long tunnels under the grass.↗ · In winter the souslik hibernates deep underground.↗ · Eagles hunt sousliks on the open steppe.↗ · The souslik stuffed seeds into its cheek pouches.↗ · We saw a photo of a souslik in our book about Ukraine's wildlife.↗

south — Everyday, meaning 1: South is one of the four main directions, towards the bottom of most maps, opposite to north.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The south of a country or place is the part that lies in that direction.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: South also means going towards the south.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The South Pole is the most southern point of the Earth, in Antarctica.↗ Example: The farm is 8 km south of the village.↗ · She drove 30 km south and then 10 km north.↗ · The south wall is 6 m long.↗ · They sailed south for 3 days.↗ · Penguins live near the South Pole.↗ · Many birds fly south for the winter in Canada.↗ · The south of England is warmer than the north.↗ · The wind is blowing from the south.↗ · And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.↗ (Torah GEN.12.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And he made the boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward.↗ (Torah EXO.36.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward: (Torah EXO.26.18, JPS 1917)↗ · This is the south side southward.↗ (Prophets EZK.47.19, JPS 1917)↗ · The burden of the beasts of the South.↗ (Prophets ISA.30.6, JPS 1917)↗ · He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.↗ (Prophets EZK.42.18, JPS 1917)↗

southeast — Everyday, meaning 1: Southeast is the direction halfway between south and east on a compass.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The southeast of a place is the part of it in that direction, as in «the southeast of England».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Southeast describes things in or from that direction, like a southeast wind, which blows from the southeast.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Southeast Asia is the region including countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia.↗ Example: The wind is blowing from the southeast.↗ · Kent is in the southeast of England.↗ · Turn to face southeast on your compass.↗ · Our holiday was in Southeast Asia, in Thailand.↗ · The town lies ten miles south-east of the city.↗ · On the map, the beach is in the southeast corner.↗ · Melbourne is in the southeast of Australia.↗ · These symbolize also twelve directions in space: northeast, southeast, the east above, the east below, the northwest, southwest, the west above, the west below, the upper south, the lower south, the upper north, the lower north.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

southeastern — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: In or from the southeast.↗ Example: Their measure is the Twelve Diagonal Borders: Northeastern border, Southeastern border, Upper-Eastern border, Lower-Western border, Upper-Northern border, Lower-Northern border, Southwestern border, Northwestern border, Upper-Western border, Lower-Western border, Upper-Southern border, Lower-Southern border.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

southern — Everyday, meaning 1: Southern means in or from the south part of a place.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Southern means facing or going towards the south.↗ Example: Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere.↗ · We drove to the southern coast.↗ · The Southern Ocean is very cold and stormy.↗ · In the southern states of the USA, summers are hot.↗ · Penguins live in southern lands near Antarctica.↗ · The southern lights glow over Antarctica.↗ · At length he reached the southern side of the rocky heights of Parnassus, beneath which lay the harbour of Crissa.↗ · Their measure is the Twelve Diagonal Borders: Northeastern border, Southeastern border, Upper-Eastern border, Lower-Western border, Upper-Northern border, Lower-Northern border, Southwestern border, Northwestern border, Upper-Western border, Lower-Western border, Upper-Southern border, Lower-Southern border.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

southland — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A land or region in the south, here the dry southern part of Israel, the Negev.↗ Example: And she said: 'Give me a blessing; for that thou hast set me in the Southland, give me therefore springs of water.'↗ And he gave her the Upper Springs and the Nether Springs.↗ (Prophets JOS.15.19, JPS 1917)↗ · And she said unto him: 'Give me a blessing; for that thou hast set me in the Southland, give me therefore springs of water.'↗ And Caleb gave her the Upper Springs and the Nether Springs.↗ (Prophets JDG.1.15, JPS 1917)↗

southward — Everyday, meaning 1: Southward means towards the south: a southward journey, birds flying southward.↗ Example: The geese flew southward for the winter.↗ · The ship turned southward towards Africa.↗ · We walked southwards along the coast.↗ · The river flows southward to the sea.↗ · The storm is moving southward.↗ · Scott led his team southward to the South Pole.↗ · Head southward until you reach the bridge.↗ · First she journeyed southward, quite down into the German land.↗ · And he made the boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward.↗ (Torah EXO.36.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward: (Torah EXO.26.18, JPS 1917)↗ · The families of the sons of Kohath were to pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward; (Torah NUM.3.29, JPS 1917)↗ · This is the south side southward.↗ (Prophets EZK.47.19, JPS 1917)↗ · To Obed-edom southward; and to his sons the Storehouse.↗ (Writings 1CH.26.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looked southward.↗ (Prophets JOS.15.2, JPS 1917)↗

southwards — Everyday, meaning 1: Southwards means towards the south.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It describes the direction of a movement or a journey going to the south.↗ Example: The geese flew southwards for the winter.↗ · We drove southwards towards the coast.↗ · The river flows southwards to the sea.↗ · On a map, southwards is usually down the page.↗ · The storm was moving southwards.↗ · From the station, walk southwards for two blocks.↗ · In Australia, going southwards makes it colder.↗ · Finnian, the Abbott of Moville, went southwards and eastwards in great haste.↗

southwest — Everyday, meaning 1: Southwest is the direction halfway between south and west.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The southwest of a country is the part in that direction, like the Southwest of the USA or the South West of England.↗ Example: The wind is blowing from the southwest.↗ · Cornwall is in the south-west of England.↗ · Arizona is in the American Southwest.↗ · Walk southwest until you reach the river.↗ · On the map, the lake is southwest of the village.↗ · Southwest is written SW on a compass.↗ · The southwest corner of the park has a playground.↗ · The birds flew southwest for the winter.↗ · A young moon, like a bright bent bow, climbed up from the southwest horizon a little way into the sky.↗ · These symbolize also twelve directions in space: northeast, southeast, the east above, the east below, the northwest, southwest, the west above, the west below, the upper south, the lower south, the upper north, the lower north.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

southwestern — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: In or toward the southwest, the direction halfway between south and west.↗ Example: Their measure is the Twelve Diagonal Borders: Northeastern border, Southeastern border, Upper-Eastern border, Lower-Western border, Upper-Northern border, Lower-Northern border, Southwestern border, Northwestern border, Upper-Western border, Lower-Western border, Upper-Southern border, Lower-Southern border.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

souvenir — Everyday, meaning 1: A souvenir is something you buy or keep to remember a place you visited or an event you went to.↗ Example: I bought a keyring as a souvenir of London.↗ · The souvenir shop sold mugs and T-shirts.↗ · She kept her ticket as a souvenir.↗ · Grandpa brought me a souvenir from Ireland.↗ · This shell is a souvenir of our beach holiday.↗ · If a souvenir costs 4 dollars, how much do three cost?↗ · Don't take stones or plants from national parks as souvenirs.↗ · We collected badges as souvenirs.↗

sovereign — Everyday, meaning 1: A sovereign is a king or queen, the ruler of a country.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Sovereign means having the full right to rule itself without control from other countries: a sovereign country.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A sovereign is an old British gold coin worth one pound.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (formal) Sovereign also means very great or best, as in «a sovereign remedy» (old).↗ Example: The sovereign was crowned in Westminster Abbey.↗ · Ukraine is a sovereign country.↗ · Grandad keeps an old gold sovereign in a box.↗ · Every sovereign state has its own laws.↗ · The sovereign signed the new law.↗ · Christians sometimes pray to «the Sovereign Lord».↗ · The young man was sent by his Sovereign as ambassador to the Russian Court.↗

sovereignty — Everyday, meaning 1: Sovereignty is the full right and power of a country to govern itself without being controlled by another country.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Sovereignty is the supreme power of a king, queen or government over a land.↗ Example: Ukraine is fighting to protect its sovereignty.↗ · Ireland won its sovereignty after a long struggle.↗ · The UN says every country's sovereignty should be respected.↗ · The treaty recognised the island's sovereignty.↗ · In old times, sovereignty belonged to the king.↗ · People argued about sovereignty in the news.↗ · At the time when the Tuatha De Dannan held the sovereignty of Ireland, there reigned in Leinster a king, who was remarkably fond of hearing stories.↗

soviet — Everyday, meaning 1: Soviet means of or about the Soviet Union (USSR), a large communist country that existed for most of the last century, made of Russia, Ukraine and other republics, ruled from Moscow.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (history) A soviet was a workers' council in Russia; the word means «council» in Russian.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «The Soviets» means the government or people of the Soviet Union.↗ Example: Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space, sent by the Soviet Union.↗ · Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union before it became independent.↗ · The Cold War was a long standoff between the USA and the Soviets.↗ · Soviet soldiers fought in the Second World War.↗ · The Soviet Union broke up into fifteen countries.↗ · Under Soviet rule, many people could not speak freely.↗ · The word «soviet» means «council» in Russian.↗

soviets — Everyday, meaning 1: (history) The Soviets were the people, government or army of the Soviet Union (USSR), a large country that existed from 1922 to 1991, led from Moscow.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (history) A soviet (small s) was a council of workers or soldiers in Russia around 1917; "soviet" is the Russian word for "council".↗ Example: The Soviets launched the first satellite in 1957.↗ · The Soviets and the Americans raced to reach space.↗ · In 1917, workers formed soviets in Russian cities.↗ · Ukraine was ruled by the Soviets until 1991.↗ · The Cold War was a long rivalry between the USA and the Soviets.↗ · My grandad remembers Soviet times.↗ · The Soviets lost millions of people in the Second World War.↗