Northern

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Situated in, toward, or facing the north.
  • adj. Coming from the north: northern breezes.
  • adj. Native to or growing in the north.
  • adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of northern regions or the North.
  • adj. Being north of the equator.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the north.
  • adj. Blowing from the north; northerly.
  • adj. Characteristic of the North of England (usually capitalised).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west.
  • adj. In a direction toward the north; ; coming from the north.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to a region, place, or point which is nearer the north than some other region, place, or point mentioned or indicated: as, the northern States; the northern part of Michigan; northern people. Abbreviated N.
  • Directed or leading toward the north or a point near it: as, to steer a northern course.
  • Proceeding from the north.
  • n. A native or an inhabitant of the north, of a northern country, or of the northern part of a country.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. situated in or coming from regions of the north
  • n. a dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans
  • adj. situated in or oriented toward the north
  • adj. in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line
  • adj. coming from the north; used especially of wind
  • Equivalent
    north-central    septrional    circumboreal    boreal    north    federal    blue    union    Yankee   
    Antonym
    southern    austral    meridional   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    north    northerly    septentrional    boreal    borean    high    northernly    northward    norward    northwardly   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    southern    western    upper    rocky    distant    African    near    inland    marshpee    networked