North

Quick meaning: North is a noun meaning The up or positive direction.

Meaning

The up or positive direction.

More Meanings

1. (ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction to the left-hand side of a person facing the altar.
2. Of or pertaining to the north; northern.
3. Toward the north; northward.
4. (meteorology) Of wind, from the north.
5. The direction towards the pole to the left-hand side of someone facing east, specifically 0°, or (on another celestial object) the direction towards the pole lying on the northern side of the invariable plane.
6. (physics) 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).
7. Alternative letter-case form of North (“a northern region; the inhabitants thereof”).

Example Sentences

He lived in north Germany.

Minnesota is in the north of the USA.

Stock prices are heading back towards the north.

[…] and after independence the north clung to sugar production longer than the south, with the result that when the north took […]

Word Forms

• norths
• northing
• northed

Synonyms for north

Depending on context, synonyms include boreal, septentrional, septentrion, northerly, northwest, northernmost.

Antonyms for north

Common opposites include south, austral, meridional.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include northerly, union, northmost, northernmost, northwestward, northbound.

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