global south
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.82 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A region predominantly composed of developing countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, regarded as half of a socioeconomic and political divide opposite to the Global North.
name
Alternative letter-case form of Global South.
Example Sentences
- "Where and what is the Global South? If you ask people on the street, many would probably not have the faintest idea. In everyday parlance and mass media, Global South has hardly become a household term. In academic and (global) policy circles, though, the term is used with much more gusto."
- "Malagasy, like many indigenous languages in the Global South, has few formal language resources. When Jagwar – born in Madagascar — discovered Wiktionary as a teenager, he saw an opportunity to correct this."
- "Countries from the global south, including Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – mega-diverse countries home to the world’s three largest rainforests – wanted governments to agree to the creation of a new biodiversity fund as part of the Montreal pact to pay for new conservation targets."
- "A paragon from the Global South, as no one I know who lives there calls it, would be very 21st century, very au courant."
- "But the summit will also show the limits of what a heterogeneous “global south” can achieve."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
the Global South (canonical)