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North   /nɔrθ/   Listen
North

noun
1.
The region of the United States lying to the north of the Mason-Dixon line.
2.
The United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War).  Synonym: Union.  "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union" , "The North's superior resources turned the scale"
3.
The cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees.  Synonyms: due north, N, northward.
4.
A location in the northern part of a country, region, or city.
5.
The direction corresponding to the northward cardinal compass point.
6.
The direction in which a compass needle points.  Synonyms: compass north, magnetic north.
7.
British statesman under George III whose policies led to rebellion in the American colonies (1732-1792).  Synonyms: Frederick North, Second Earl of Guilford.
adjective
1.
Situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the north.  "The north portico"  Antonym: south.
adverb
1.
In a northern direction.  Synonyms: northerly, northward, northwards.  "Let's go north!"



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"North" Quotes from Famous Books



... rapidly westward, across the Atlantic, still blew from east to west, and Columbus did not then know that their influence only extends to a certain distance on each side of the Equator, so that if he had sailed a little farther north, on his return, he would very likely have met with a south-west wind, which ...
— Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia • Samuel Griswold Goodrich

... years engaged. For I speak well within bounds when I declare that a complete revolution in all existing conceptions of American archaeology and ethnology will be wrought when Pre-Columbian Conditions on the Continent of North America, by Professor Thomas Palgrave, Ph.D. (Leipsic), ...
— The Aztec Treasure-House • Thomas Allibone Janvier

... Doutte, Magie et Religion dans l'Afrique du Nord (Algiers, 1908), pp. 566 sq. For an older but briefer notice of the Midsummer fires in North Africa, see Giuseppe Ferraro, Superstizioni, Usi e Proverbi Monferrini (Palermo, 1886), pp. 34 sq.: "Also in Algeria, among the Mussalmans, and in Morocco, as Alvise da Cadamosto reports in his Relazione dei viaggi d'Africa, which may be read in Ramusio, people used to hold great festivities ...
— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer

... on Education; Plans for the Instruction of Boys in Large Numbers, which appeared in The London Magazine for April and May, 1824, were duly authenticated by the following characteristic letter from DE QUINCEY to CHRISTOPHER NORTH. It appears in Professor Wilson's Life, written by his ...
— The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey--Vol. 1 - With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg • Thomas de Quincey

... North, upon his frozen wings, Bear him aloft above the wondering clouds, And seat him in the Pleiads' golden chariot, Thence should my fury drag him ...
— Hearts of Controversy • Alice Meynell


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