Vocabulary     

What does north mean?

Definitions for north
nɔrθnorth

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word north.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. Northnoun

    the region of the United States lying to the north of the Mason-Dixon line

  2. Union, Northnoun

    the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)

    "he has visited every state in the Union"; "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union"; "the North's superior resources turned the scale"

  3. north, due north, northward, Nnoun

    the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees

  4. northnoun

    a location in the northern part of a country, region, or city

  5. northnoun

    the direction corresponding to the northward cardinal compass point

  6. north, magnetic north, compass northnoun

    the direction in which a compass needle points

  7. North, Frederick North, Second Earl of Guilfordadjective

    British statesman under George III whose policies led to rebellion in the American colonies (1732-1792)

  8. northadverb

    situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the north

    "artists like north light"; "the north portico"

  9. north, northerly, northwards, northwardadverb

    in a northern direction

    "they earn more up north"; "Let's go north!"

Wiktionary

  1. northnoun

    One of the four major compass points, specifically 0°, directed toward the North Pole, and conventionally upwards on a map.

    Minnesota is in the north of the USA.

  2. northnoun

    The up or positive direction.

    Stock prices are heading north.

  3. northnoun

    Above or higher

    The price you're offering had better be north of the highest price this company has ever traded for. - Tom Aldredge in the movie Barbarians at the Gate

  4. northnoun

    The positive or north pole of a magnet, which seeks the magnetic pole near Earth's geographic North Pole (which, for its magnetic properties, is a south pole).

  5. northadverb

    Toward the north; northward.

  6. northadjective

    Of or pertaining to the north; northern.

  7. northadjective

    Toward the north; northward.

  8. northadjective

    Of wind, from the north.

    The north wind was cold.

  9. northadjective

    Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by northbound traffic.

    north highway 1

  10. Northnoun

    The Union during the American Civil War.

    The North lost most battles early in the war.

  11. Northnoun

    The North of England, a cultural region.

  12. Northnoun

    The northern states of the United States.

  13. Northnoun

    The northern part of any region.

  14. Etymology: from norþ, cognate with various Germanic counterparts such as Dutch noord(en), all from a nurþan, and cognate with Greek possibly all ultimately from a ner-, as north is to the left when one faces the rising sun.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Northadjective

    Northern; being in the north.

    This shall be your north border from the great sea to mount Hor. Num. xxxiv. 7.

  2. NORTHnoun

    The point opposite to the sun in the meridian.

    Etymology: norð , Saxon.

    More unconstant than the wind; who wooes
    Ev’n now the frozen bosom of the north;
    And being anger’d puffs away from thence,
    Turning his face to the dew dropping south. William Shakespeare.

    The tyrannous breathing of the north,
    Shakes all our buds from blowing. William Shakespeare, Cymb.

    Fierce Boreas issues forth
    T’ invade th’ frozen waggon of the north. Dryd.

Wikipedia

  1. North

    Football Club Copenhagen (Danish: Football Club København, pronounced [kʰøpm̩ˈhɑwˀn]), commonly known as FC København, FC Copenhagen, Copenhagen or simply FCK, is a professional Danish football club in Copenhagen, Denmark. FCK was founded in 1992 as a superstructure on top of Kjøbenhavns Boldklub and Boldklubben 1903. F.C. Copenhagen has won 14 Danish Football Championships and 8 Danish Cups. In European football F.C. Copenhagen has reached the group stage of the UEFA Champions League and the group stage of the UEFA Europa League more times than any other Danish club and are the only Danish club who has reached the knockout stage of the Champions League. As of December 2022, Copenhagen are the highest ranked Scandinavian club in the UEFA team rankings list.Copenhagen plays its matches at the Parken Stadium, which also serves as the venue for Denmark national football team matches. Since their foundation, FCK have developed a fierce rivalry with Brøndby IF. The Copenhagen Derby games between the two sides have attracted some of the biggest crowds in Danish football history.

ChatGPT

  1. north

    North is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points, typically considered the opposite of south and is associated with the upper end of a physical map or diagram. It refers to a geographic direction towards the North Pole from any given location in the world. It is also often used to indicate a general upwards or forward motion. It can be used to describe the direction in navigation, geography, astronomy, or other fields. North can also be used metaphorically or symbolically to represent harsh conditions, cold temperatures, or a sense of orientation.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Northnoun

    that one of the four cardinal points of the compass, at any place, which lies in the direction of the true meridian, and to the left hand of a person facing the east; the direction opposite to the south

  2. Northnoun

    any country or region situated farther to the north than another; the northern section of a country

  3. Northnoun

    specifically: That part of the United States lying north of Mason and Dixon's line. See under Line

  4. Northadjective

    lying toward the north; situated at the north, or in a northern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the north, or coming from the north

  5. Northverb

    to turn or move toward the north; to veer from the east or west toward the north

  6. Northadverb

    northward

  7. Etymology: [AS. nor; akin to D. noord, G., Sw., & Dan. nord, Icel. norr. Cf. Norman, Norse.]

Wikidata

  1. North

    North is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. North is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. By convention, the top side of a map is often north. To go north using a compass for navigation, set a bearing or azimuth of 0° or 360°. North is specifically the direction that, in Western culture, is treated as the fundamental direction: ⁕North is used to define all other directions. ⁕The top edges of maps usually correspond to the northern edge of the area represented, unless explicitly stated otherwise or landmarks are considered more useful for that territory than specific directions. ⁕On any rotating object, north denotes the side appearing to rotate counter-clockwise when viewed from afar along the axis of rotation.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. North

    north, n. the point opposite the sun at noon: one of the four cardinal points of the horizon: the side of a church to the left of one facing the principal altar: that portion of the United States north of the former slave-holding states—i.e. north of Maryland, the Ohio, and Missouri.—adv. to or in the north.—ns. North′-cock, the snow bunting; North′-east, the point between the north and east, equidistant from each.—adj. belonging to or from the north-east.—n. North′-east′er, a wind from the north-east.—adjs. North′-east′erly, toward or coming from the north-east; North′-east′ern, belonging to the north-east: being in the north-east, or in that direction.—adv. North′-east′ward, toward the north-east.—ns. North′er (th), a wind or gale from the north, esp. applied to a cold wind that blows in winter over Texas and the Gulf of Mexico; North′erliness (th), state of being toward the north.—adj. North′erly (th), being toward the north: coming from the north.—adv. toward or from the north.—adj. North′ern (th), pertaining to the north: being in the north or in the direction toward it: proceeding from the north.—n. an inhabitant of the north.—n. North′erner (th), a native of, or resident in, the north, esp. of the northern United States.—adjs. North′ernmost (th), North′most, situate at the point farthest north.—ns. North′ing, motion, distance, or tendency northward: distance of a heavenly body from the equator northward: difference of latitude made by a ship in sailing northward: deviation towards the north; North′man, one of the ancient Scandinavians; North′-pole, the point in the heavens, or beneath it on the earth's surface, ninety degrees north of the equator; North′-star, the north polar star; Northum′brian, a native of the modern Northumberland, or of the ancient kingdom of Northumbria, stretching from the Humber to the Forth: that variety of English spoken in Northumbria before the Conquest—also adj.—adjs. North′ward, North′wardly, being toward the north.—adv. toward the north—also North′wards.—n. North′-west, the point between the north and west, equidistant from each.—adj. pertaining to or from the north-west.—adjs. North′-west′erly, toward or coming from the north-west; North′-west′ern, belonging to the north-west: pertaining to, or being in, the north-west or in that direction.—North water, the space of open sea left by the winter pack of ice moving southward.—North-east Passage, a passage for ships along the north coasts of Europe and Asia to the Pacific, first made by Nordenskiöld in 1878-79; Northern lights, the aurora borealis (q.v.); North-west Passage, a sea-way for ships from the Atlantic into the Pacific along the northern coast of America, fir

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. north

    From the Anglo-Saxon nord.

Editors Contribution

  1. north

    Is an intuitively known direction or compass point on a navigational system on planet earth.

    North is the other direction to south and is perpendicular to east and west.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 9, 2017  

Suggested Resources

  1. north

    The north symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the north symbol and its characteristic.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. NORTH

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, North is ranked #1766 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The North surname appeared 20,343 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 7 would have the surname North.

    85.1% or 17,328 total occurrences were White.
    9.4% or 1,918 total occurrences were Black.
    2.2% or 460 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.8% or 374 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.6% or 136 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.6% or 126 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'north' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #578

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'north' in Written Corpus Frequency: #900

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'north' in Nouns Frequency: #236

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

Anagrams for north »

  1. Rt Hon

  2. Thorn

  3. thorn

How to pronounce north?

How to say north in sign language?

Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of north in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of north in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of north in a Sentence

  1. Suzanne Scholte:

    It is absolutely outrageous that they completely ignore the suffering of the North Korean people, especially North Korean women, if they truly cared, they would cross the China-North Korea border instead, which is actually more dangerous now than the DMZ.

  2. Vincent Martin:

    The food and nutrition insecurity situation in North Korea is worrying and the African swine fever outbreak puts additional pressure on the availability of proteins of animal origin.

  3. Mike Pompeo:

    This administration is not going to do that, and I'm very hopeful that North Koreans will make a substantial step towards achieving the full denuclearization in a verifiable way in North Korea.

  4. Richard Colwell:

    In order to re-gain lost ground, Sinn Fein need to move to settle matters in the North quickly, and re-focus voters' attention on the local issues they are fighting for on their behalf, the question then is if this re-focus will be enough to regain voters, with the backdrop of an increasingly positive economic outlook, and an electorate that broadly believes that the country is currently on the right track.

  5. Anthony Fauci:

    It's much more about some of the states like Utah, Nevada, South Dakota, North Dakota, where... they never had a pretty good reserve of intensive care beds and things like South Dakota. I hope they'll be okay, but it's still a risk that, as you get more surging, they're going to run out of capacity.

more sentences »

Popularity rank by frequency of use

north#1#326#10000

References

Translations for north

From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary

Get even more translations for north »

Translation

Find a translation for the north definition in other languages:

Select another language:

  • - Select -
  • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
  • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Esperanto (Esperanto)
  • 日本語 (Japanese)
  • Português (Portuguese)
  • Deutsch (German)
  • العربية (Arabic)
  • Français (French)
  • Русский (Russian)
  • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
  • 한국어 (Korean)
  • עברית (Hebrew)
  • Gaeilge (Irish)
  • Українська (Ukrainian)
  • اردو (Urdu)
  • Magyar (Hungarian)
  • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
  • Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Italiano (Italian)
  • தமிழ் (Tamil)
  • Türkçe (Turkish)
  • తెలుగు (Telugu)
  • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
  • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
  • Čeština (Czech)
  • Polski (Polish)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Românește (Romanian)
  • Nederlands (Dutch)
  • Ελληνικά (Greek)
  • Latinum (Latin)
  • Svenska (Swedish)
  • Dansk (Danish)
  • Suomi (Finnish)
  • فارسی (Persian)
  • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
  • հայերեն (Armenian)
  • Norsk (Norwegian)
  • English (English)

Word of the Day

Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?

Please enter your email address:

Citation

Use the citation below to add this definition to your bibliography:

Style:MLAChicagoAPA

"north." Definitions.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 18 Dec. 2024. <https://www.definitions.net/definition/north>.

Powered by CITE.ME Cite.Me

Discuss these north definitions with the community:

0 Comments

    Are we missing a good definition for north? Don't keep it to yourself...

    Image or illustration of

    north

    Credit »

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Chrome

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Firefox

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Browse Definitions.net

    #ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 

    Quiz

    Are you a words master?

    »
    the act of making a noisy disturbance
    A abash
    B embellish
    C rumpus
    D efface

    Nearby & related entries:

    Alternative searches for north: