[
US
/ˈnɔɹθ/
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[ UK /nˈɔːθ/ ]
[ UK /nˈɔːθ/ ]
NOUN
- the region of the United States lying to the north of the Mason-Dixon line
- British statesman under George III whose policies led to rebellion in the American colonies (1732-1792)
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the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)
he has visited every state in the Union
the North's superior resources turned the scale
Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union
How To Use North In A Sentence
- Hopefully, North Norfolk will soon shake off this surreal obsession with the Lib Dems and embrace their NE Cambs neighbour's decent Tory stance. Will Iain Dale have to repay the donations ?
- The mysterious jack snipe is a typical bird of the often water-logged northern taiga, birch and willow country.
- Anybody who has ever been on a North Queensland pastoral lease knows that you can go 20, 30, 40 miles day after day and all you will see is a few brumbies and some wild pigs; you will not see any cattle anywhere.
- Sony Pictures Animation has a full slate of films including the mouth-watering 3D comedy Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which opened as the #1 movie in North America on September 18, Hotel Transylvania, now in pre-production and, in association with Columbia Pictures, The Smurfs, now in production. Anton Yelchin and Fred Armisen Join The Smurfs | /Film
- Those morning glories are grown every year along the south face of the historic, well-preserved post-and-beam barn that is the center of Heritage Farm; the 890-acre spread a few miles north of Decorah that Seed Savers Exchange now calls home. Kurt Michael Friese: Memories of a Life Spent Saving Seeds
- I call him the little weasel, a little northern monkey. Times, Sunday Times
- After putting its energy into the 2008 acquisition of Northwest Airlines, the Atlanta-based carrier plans to spend more than $2 billion through 2013 to lure travelers with new flat-bed seats, video on demand and upgraded facilities in hotly contested markets such as New York. Delta Refocuses
- Another tomb of interest (and of which we will speak in extenso in the next instalment of this series) is the tomb of the Pope Clement II, the only pope to be buried north of the Alps. The statue, sculpted by the same (unknown) sculptor as the Horseman, was originally the slab of the tomb, which remains on the west choir, behind the cathedra: Catholic Bamberg: The Cathedral
- The embassy had been shut down due to Mongolia's support for South Korea's "sunshine policy" of conciliation toward the North.
- Police arrested 13 people, and some students were treated for minor injuries at the scene in northeast El Paso.
