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See also:Northandnorþ

English

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North.
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FromMiddle Englishnorth, fromOld Englishnorþ, fromProto-West Germanic*norþr, fromProto-Germanic*nurþrą, ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*nér(“below (the surface)”). The meaning developed either from "region where the sun is below (the earth)" or from "left side of someone who turns to the east when praying".

Cognate with various Germanic counterparts such asDutchnoord,West Frisiannoard,GermanNord,Danish andNorwegiannord; also withGreekνέρτερος(nérteros,“infernal, lower”) andSanskritनरक(naraka,“hell”)

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north (countable anduncountable,pluralnorths)

  2. The direction towards thepole to the left-hand side of someone facingeast, specifically 0°, or (on another celestial object) the direction towards thepole lying on the northern side of theinvariable plane.
    Alternative form:(abbreviation)N
    Minnesota is in thenorth of the USA.
  3. Theup orpositive direction.
    Stock prices are heading back towards thenorth.
  4. (physics) Thepositive ornorth pole of amagnet, which seeks the magnetic pole near Earth's geographicNorth Pole (which, for its magnetic properties, is a south pole).
  5. Alternativeletter-case form ofNorth(“a northern region; the inhabitants thereof”).[circa 1300]
    • 2002, Mats Lundahl,Politics or Markets?: Essays on Haitian Underdevelopment, Routledge,→ISBN:
      […] and after independence thenorth clung to sugar production longer than the south, with the result that when thenorth took[…]
  6. (ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction to the left-hand side of a person facing thealtar.
    • 1998, Leonel L. Mitchell,Pastoral and Occasional Liturgies: A Ceremonial Guide, Rowman & Littlefield,→ISBN, page49:
      If candidates stand on the liturgical south facing the presider and liturgical assistants on the liturgicalnorth, it will present better visual lines for the congregation than if they stand facing east and west with their backs toward the congregation.
    • 2011, Paul Turner,At the Supper of the Lamb: A Pastoral and Theological Commentary on the Mass, LiturgyTrainingPublications,→ISBN, page27:
      Many early Christian basilicas were designed with twin ambos for the proclamation of the epistle (on the liturgical south side) and the Gospel (on thenorth). The separation of the ambos indicated the distinction that should be accorded the Gospel, which was proclaimed from thenorth as if evangelization needed to happen to the geographically southern part of the world.
    • 2014, Paul Porwoll,Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706-2013, WestBow Press,→ISBN, page365:
      At St. Andrew's, ecclesiasticalnorth, south, east, and west correspond to geographical northeast, southwest, southeast, and northwest.
    • 2017, Cameron Macdonell,Ghost Storeys: Ralph Adams Cram, Modern Gothic Media, and Deconstructive Microhistory at a Canadian Church, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP,→ISBN:
      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 liturgicalnorth, both half-timbered in the Tudor Revival style. [Referring to a church that is oriented SSE, making "south" WSW]

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northwestnorthnortheast
westeast
southwestsouthsoutheast

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Also seeAppendix:Cardinal directions for translations of all compass points
compass point
up or positive direction
north pole of a magnet

Adjective

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north (notcomparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the north;northern.
    He lived innorth Germany.
    She entered through thenorth gate.
  2. Toward the north;northward.
    • 1987, Ana María Brull Vázquez, Rosa E. Casas,Cuba, page23:
      The most dangerous ones are those that develop during October and November and that follow anorth path affecting the western part of the island.
  3. (meteorology) Of wind, from the north.
    Thenorth wind was cold.
  4. Pertaining to the part of acorridor used bynorthboundtraffic.
    north highway 1
    • 2001, Joseph R Miller,Pipe Tobacco and Wool:
      Traffic was doing the speed limit onNorth I-45 one minute and had come to a stand-still the next.
  5. (ecclesiastical) Designating, or situated in, the liturgical north (in a church, the direction to the left-hand side of a person facing thealtar).
    • 2011, Michael Attridge, Catherine E. Clifford, Gilles Routhier,Vatican II: Expériences canadiennes – Canadian experiences, University of Ottawa Press,→ISBN, page145:
      […] the high church had liked its clergy to preside at the Eucharist in anad orientem position; the low church advocated what was called thenorth end position; but the Liturgical Movement asked the priest to take a basilical position, facing liturgical west, and now both Anglican factions could agree on this third position without either of them losing face.
    • 2014, Paul Porwoll,Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706-2013, WestBow Press,→ISBN, page365:
      Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated atecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), notgeographical ormagnetic southeast. Thus,[…] Thenorth side faces the river (beyond the subdivision behind the church), and the south side, Ashley River Road.[…] At St. Andrew's, ecclesiastical north, south, east, and west correspond to geographical northeast, southwest, southeast, and northwest. Unless otherwise indicated, compass directions given in this book are ecclesiastical, not geographical, reference points.
  6. (colloquial) More or greater than.
    The wedding ended up costingnorth of $50,000.
    • 1993,Barbarians at the Gate, spoken by Charlie Hugel (Tom Aldredge):
      The price you're offering had better benorth of the highest price this company has ever traded for.
    • 2021 December,The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page57, column 2:
      Some of the windscreens we replace costnorth of $1800[.]

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Terms derived fromnorth (adjective)

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of or pertaining to the north
toward the north
meteorology: of wind, from the north
part of a corridor used by northbound traffic
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Adverb

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north (notcomparable)

  1. Toward the north;northward;northerly.
    Switzerland isnorth of Italy.
    We headednorth.

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towards the north

Verb

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north (third-person singular simple presentnorths,present participlenorthing,simple past and past participlenorthed)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To turn or move toward the north.
    • 1769, Henry Wilson, William Hume,Surveying improved, page239:
      When at B you hadnorthed 3.71[…]

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FromEnglishnorth.

Noun

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north m

  1. (navigation)north
    Synonyms:gogledh,kledhbarth
    Antonyms:dyghow,dyghowbarth,soth

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Middle English

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Etymology

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FromOld Englishnorþ, fromProto-West Germanic*norþr, fromProto-Germanic*nurþraz.

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Noun

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north

  2. north,northernness
  3. A location to the north; the north
  4. The north wind

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Adjective

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north

  2. north,northern
  3. At the north

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Adverb

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north

  2. To the north,northwards
  3. From the north
  4. In the north

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