Meaning

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..

Definitions by Sense

1. 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.
2. The up or positive direction.
3. (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).
4. Alternative letter-case form of North (“a northern region; the inhabitants thereof”).
5. (ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction to the left-hand side of a person facing the altar.
6. Of or pertaining to the north; northern.
7. Toward the north; northward.
8. (meteorology) Of wind, from the north.

Example Sentences

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 […]

If candidates stand on the liturgical south facing the presider and liturgical assistants on the liturgical north, it will present better visual lines for the congregation than if they stand facing east and west with their backs toward the congregation.

Many early Christian basilicas were designed with twin ambos for the proclamation of the epistle (on the liturgical south side) and the Gospel (on the north). The separation of the ambos indicated the distinction that should be accorded the Gospel, which was proclaimed from the north as if evangelization needed to happen to the geographically southern part of the world.

At St. Andrew's, ecclesiastical north, south, east, and west correspond to geographical northeast, southwest, southeast, and northwest.

The new St Mary's Anglican Church, Walkerville, has an attached rectory flanking to the liturgical south and an attached parish hall flanking to the liturgical north, both half-timbered in the Tudor Revival style. [Referring to a church that is oriented SSE, making "south" WSW]

He lived in north Germany.

Word Forms

• norths
• further north
• farther north
• furthest north
• farthest north
• northing
• northed

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Use north when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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