north : Idioms & Phrases

• noun English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Bertrand Russell (1861-1947)
  Whitehead.
  

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• noun capital of the state of North Carolina; located in the east central part of the North Carolina
  Raleigh.
  

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• noun capital of the state of North Dakota; located in south central North Dakota overlooking the Missouri river
  Bismarck.
  

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• noun capital of North Korea and an industrial center
  Pyongyang.
  
  • Pyongyang is Korea's oldest city but little of its history has been preserved

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• noun the direction in which a compass needle points
  compass north; north.
  

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• noun the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees
  northward; north; N.
  

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• noun the compass point that is one point north of due east
  EbN.
  

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• according to the notation of the mariner's compass, that point which lies 11 to the north or south, respectively, of the point due east.

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• noun British statesman under George III whose policies led to rebellion in the American colonies (1732-1792)
  North; Second Earl of Guilford.
  

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• noun a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans
  Great Plains.
  

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• noun the direction in which a compass needle points
  compass north; north.
  

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• noun an area of northern Africa between the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea
  

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• adjective of or relating to northern Africa
  

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• noun a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama
  
• noun the nations of the North American continent collectively
  

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• noun a native or inhabitant of North America
  
• adjective of or pertaining to or characteristic of the continent or countries of North America or their peoples
  

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• noun any country on the North American continent
  North American country.
  

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• noun an agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico; became effective in 1994 for ten years
  NAFTA.
  

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• noun any country on the North American continent
  North American country.
  

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• noun that part of the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator
  

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• noun a council consisting of permanent representatives of all the member countries of NATO; has political authority and powers of decision
  NAC.
  

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• noun the treaty signed in 1949 by 12 countries that established NATO
  

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• noun an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security
  NATO.
  

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• noun a region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo
  Sabah.
  

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• noun the compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north
  NbE.
  

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• noun the compass point that is one point west of due north
  NbW.
  

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• noun a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies
  Tar Heel State; NC; North Carolina.
  
• noun one of the British colonies that formed the United States
  

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• noun a native or resident of North Carolina
  Tarheel.
  

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• noun a national park in Washington that is an alpine wilderness area featuring gold rush and logging campsites
  

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• noun the celestial pole above the northern hemisphere; near Polaris
  

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• noun a strait between Northern Ireland and Scotland that connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Irish Sea
  

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• noun a state of north central United States bordering on Canada
  Peace Garden State; ND.
  

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• noun a native or resident of North Dakota
  

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• noun a Dravidian language spoken primarily in eastern India
  

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• noun an equatorial current that flows west across the Pacific just north of the equator
  

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• noun the regions to the north of the Arctic Circle centered on the North Pole
  Arctic; Arctic Zone.
  

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• noun the northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland
  Scandinavian language; Norse; Scandinavian; Nordic; North Germanic.
  

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• noun the northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland
  Scandinavian language; Norse; Scandinavian; Nordic; North Germanic.
  

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• noun the smaller but more populous of two main islands of New Zealand; separated from South Island by Cook Strait
  

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• noun perennial herb closely resembling European edelweiss; New Zealand
  Leucogenes leontopodium.
  

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• noun a communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948
  Democratic People's Republic of Korea; D.P.R.K.; DPRK.
  

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• noun a Korean from North Korea
  
• adjective of or relating to or characteristic of North Korea or its people or their culture
  

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• noun monetary unit in North Korea
  

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• noun the basic unit of money in North Korea
  won.
  

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• noun the compass point that is midway between north and northeast
  NNE; nor'-nor'-east.
  

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• noun the compass point that is midway between north and northwest
  NNW; nor'-nor'-west.
  

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• noun that part of the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator
  

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• noun 19,370 feet high
  

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• noun a river that rises in northern Colorado and flows northward into Wyoming and then eastward and southeastward through Nebraska where it joins the South Platte to form the Platte River
  North Platte.
  
• noun a town in west central Nebraska on the Platte River
  

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• noun a river that rises in northern Colorado and flows northward into Wyoming and then eastward and southeastward through Nebraska where it joins the South Platte to form the Platte River
  North Platte.
  

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• noun the northernmost point of the Earth's axis
  

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• that point in the heavens, or on the earth, ninety degrees from the equator toward the north.

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• . See Following, a., 2.

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• noun an arm of the North Atlantic between the British Isles and Scandinavia; oil was discovered under the North Sea in 1970
  

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• noun the side that is on the north
  

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• noun the brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it
  pole star; Polaris; polestar; polar star.
  

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• the star toward which the north pole of the earth very nearly points, and which accordingly seems fixed and immovable in the sky. The star α (alpha) of the Little Bear, is our present north star, being distant from the pole about 1° 25', and from year to year approaching slowly nearer to it. It is called also Cynosura, polestar, and by astronomers, Polaris.

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• noun a midwestern state
  Gopher State; MN; Minnesota.
  

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• noun Temperate Zone between the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer
  

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• noun a former country in southeastern Asia that existed from 1954 (after the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu) until 1975 when South Vietnam collapsed at the end of the Vietnam War
  

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• adjective of or relating to North Vietnam or its people or culture
  

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• noun a wind that blows from the north
  northerly; boreas; norther.
  

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• noun a county in northern England
  

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• adjective satellite being in or of a region of the United States generally including states of the upper Mississippi valley and Great Lakes region lying north of the Ohio River and the southern boundaries of Kansas and Missouri and between the western boundary of Pennsylvania and the eastern boundaries of Montana and Wyoming and Colorado
  
• adjective satellite situated in the northern part of a centrally located area in some geographical region
  
  • the north-central part of Russia

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• adverb to, toward, or in the northeast
  northeast; nor'-east.
  

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• adverb to, toward, or in the north-northeast
  nor'-nor'-east.
  

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• adverb to, toward, or in the north-northwest
  nor'-nor'-west.
  

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• adjective satellite of or relating to the Arctic
  Arctic.
  
  • the Arctic summer

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• noun the pole of a magnet that points toward the north when the magnet is suspended freely
  positive magnetic pole; positive pole.
  

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• noun in a direction parallel with lines of longitude
  

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• adverb to, toward, or in the northwest
  northwest; nor'-west.
  

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• noun the compass point that is one point north of northeast
  NEbN.
  

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• noun the compass point that is one point north of northwest
  NWbN.
  

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• noun the medieval Norman dialect of Old French
  Norman-French; Norman French.
  

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• noun a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies
  Tar Heel State; NC; North Carolina.
  

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• noun a university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  

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• noun the compass point that is one point north of due west
  WbN.
  

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• according to the notation of the mariner's compass, that point which lies 11¼° to the north or south, respectively, of the point due west.

Webster 1913