North
- Proper noun. (US) The Union during the American Civil War.
- Proper noun. (UK) The North of England, a cultural region.
- Proper noun. The northern states of the United States.
- Proper noun. The northern part of any region.
- Noun. One of the four major compass points, specifically 0°, directed toward the North Pole, and conventionally upwards on a map.
- Noun. The up or positive direction.
- Noun. Above or higher.
- Noun. (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).
- Adjective. Of or pertaining to the north; northern.
- Adjective. Toward the north; northward.
- Adjective. (meteorology) Of wind, from the north.
- Adjective. Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by northbound traffic.
- Adverb. Toward the north; northward.
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