Northern - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈnɔːrðərn|  American pronunciation of the word northern
Brit.  |ˈnɔːð(ə)n|  British pronunciation of the word northern

noun

- a dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans

adjective

- situated in or oriented toward the north (syn: northerly)
the northern suburbs
- coming from the north; used especially of wind (syn: northerly)
a northern snowstorm

Extra examples

As the land northerns, the continent grows broader and broader.

Northern Europe

He was assigned to the northern sector.

Mountains lie at the city's northern margins.

Pine trees skirt the northern edge of the pond.

...the cabin is precariously perched on a declivity of the mountain's northern face...

...the vast and frozen demesne of the northern tundra...

...the aboriginal peoples of northern Alaska are known as Inupiats, which in their language literally means “real people”...

...had lived through several northern winters before she fully acclimatized her wardrobe...

...a villa that has been embosomed by the verdant hills of northern Italy for three centuries...

...city dwellers who looked down on their cousins from northern Maine as hicks...

...those lucid bands that spread across the arctic sky and are known as the northern lights...

The poet's home was in a northern city embosomed in mountains.

Northern Hemisphere

Our money's on Northern Dancer to win the third race.

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