North
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /nÉ”Ë(ɹ)θ/
- Rhymes: -É”Ë(ɹ)θ
- US IPA: /noËɹθ/
- NY IPA: /nɔəθ/
Origin
From Middle English, from Old English norþ, cognate with various Germanic counterparts such as Dutch noord, West Frisian noard, German Nord, Danish nord, all from a Proto-Germanic *nurþą, and cognate with Greek νÎÏτεÏος (nerteros, "infernal, lower") possibly all ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European *ner- ("left, below"), as north is to the left when one faces the rising sun.
Full definition of north
Noun
north
(uncountable)- 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.
- The up or positive direction.Stock prices are heading north.
- Above or higherThe 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 (film)
- (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).
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north
- Of or pertaining to the north; northern.He lived in north Germany.She entered through the north gate.
- Toward the north; northward.
- 1987, Ana MarÃa Brull Vázquez, Rosa E. Casas, Cuba, page 23:The most dangerous ones are those that develop during October and November and that follow a north path affecting the western part of the island.
- (meteorology) Of wind, from the north.The north wind was cold.
- Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by northbound traffic.north highway 1
- 2001, Joseph R Miller, Pipe Tobacco and Wool:Traffic was doing the speed limit on North I-45 one minute and had come to a stand-still the next.
- (colloquial) More or greater than.The wedding ended up costing north of $50,000.
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- (of the north) boreal
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- (obsolete, intransitive) To turn or move toward the north.
- 1769, Henry Wilson, William Hume, Surveying improved (page 239)When at B you had northed 3.71...