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North

noun

The region of the United States lying to the north of the Mason-Dixon line.

The United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War). Synonym: Union. "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union" , "The North's superior resources turned the scale"

The cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees. Synonyms: due north, N, northward.

A location in the northern part of a country, region, or city.

The direction corresponding to the northward cardinal compass point.

The direction in which a compass needle points. Synonyms: compass north, magnetic north.

British statesman under George III whose policies led to rebellion in the American colonies (1732-1792). Synonyms: Frederick North, Second Earl of Guilford.

adjective

Situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the north. "The north portico"

adverb

In a northern direction. Synonyms: northerly, northward, northwards. "Let's go north!"

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"North" Quotes from Famous Books

... the celebration of the national holiday. Treating Bourdon to an extra glass of whisky, and seasoning it with some well-timed denunciations of "the old monster," he gathered that the plan was to plant a keg of powder under the chimney on the north side of the cabin and blow it to pieces, just to scare the monster out, or kill him and his daughter, it did not matter which. Edwards praised the plan. He said that if it were not that he had to go to Pelican Lake that ...

— Duffels • Edward Eggleston

... occupied in unpacking my mails; and telling him to give my linen to Madame Dubois, I went into a pretty cabinet adjoining, where there was a desk and all materials necessary for writing. This closet had only one window facing north, but it commanded a view capable of inspiring the finest thoughts. I was amusing myself with the contemplation of this sublime prospect, when I heard a knock at my door. It was my pretty housekeeper, who wore a modest and pleasant expression, and did not in the least resemble ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... I meant to stay in a native village. She talked to me of Scotland, and perhaps I noticed in her a tendency to enlarge on the sumptuousness of her establishment there. She asked me naively if I knew Mrs This and Mrs That, with whom she had been acquainted when she lived in the north. ...

— The Trembling of a Leaf - Little Stories of the South Sea Islands • William Somerset Maugham

... Mr. Holiday, "and are very suitable for pleasure travel like this, where the boats are small, and the number of passengers few; but I presume it would be very difficult to collect the fares in this way on a North River steamer, where there are sometimes a thousand passengers on board. Here there are usually not more than eight or ten passengers that come on board at a time, and they mix with only fifty or sixty that were on board before. But in America we often have fifty or sixty come ...

— Rollo in Geneva • Jacob Abbott

... them free. He calculated what would be a reasonable price for them, and when the number of millions of dollars that would be required for such a purpose was announced the proposition was scouted, and the North would not have made the offer, and the South would not have ...

— T. De Witt Talmage - As I Knew Him • T. De Witt Talmage

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