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northern

If something is northern, it is in, from, or about the north. We couldn't go south, so we looked for a more northern route. The birds are found from the Missouri River west to the Rocky Mountains and from southern Canada to northern Mexico. Once the Soviet Union fell, Iran's northern borders became peaceful. Almost every forest in the Northern Hemisphere has been logged. Rock River runs along the northern edge of town.

northern

in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line Northern liberals northern industry northern cities (= northerly) situated in or oriented toward the north the northern suburbs going in a northerly direction (= northerly) coming from the north; used especially of wind the north wind doth blow a northern snowstorm the winds are northerly situated in or coming from regions of the north the northern hemisphere northern autumn colors

Northern

a dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans

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A mountain chain protects the valley from the northern winds.
They say that since it was bitterly cold in Northern Europe that winter, many people were frozen to death.
Those animals can be seen in the Northern Hemisphere.
The United States is in the Northern Hemisphere.
Japan is located in the Northern Hemisphere.
There is more moorland in Northern Germany than in Southern Germany.
There are more pagans in Northern Germany than in Southern Germany.
The United Kingdom is comprised of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
The northern English town of Scunthorpe is difficult to find on the web.
Tom and Mary visited Northern Europe.
The northern half of what is today Papua New Guinea was a German colony.
The workers of the northern countries have paid a high price for the displacement of production in the southern regions.
I live in northern Sweden.
Northern lights appear all year round in Greenland.
Canada borders the northern part of the United States.
Our office is on the northern side of the building.
In the north, there's Scotland; in the south, England; in the west, Wales; and further west, Northern Ireland.
The northern wind blew all day.
They captured an American fort in northern Michigan.
My house is in the northern part of the city.
Hokkaido is located in the northern part of Japan.
What's the minimum salary in Northern Ireland?

Movie subtitles

Some scholars speculate they reached as far as northern australia, the Cape of Good Hope and greenland, and all this was years before the European Age of exploration had so much as begun.
Whereas in China power was centralised in the hands of the emperor, in Northern Europe particularly, there was an astonishing decentralisation.
City lights here we go from northern ligh.
Here at nasa's Ames Research Center in northern California, astronomer Peter schultz and his team are testing to see if this theory of Panspermia is even remotely possible.
Farandola is safe and commands the Northern army.
The Northern division nearing the bridge to meet the supply trains.
You have the special maps for the northern area?
A map of the northern part of town?
For in his train today.. he's brought us half a score of boxes full of jewels and silks.. andmore,about30,000goldenmarks wrested from the northern shires.
And maybe if he's alive and well, he's on some Northern road right now.
Maybe a Northern woman is giving him some of her dinner. and helping my beloved to come back home to me.
It's in the winter that you see the Northern Lights, isn't it?
That's not the Northern Lights.
A northern Methodist or a Southern?
Before, astronomers had used visual techniques to map the stars of the northern sky.
This catalogue of northern stars was also called a 'Durchmusterung', a German word for survey.
General Parker's victorious Northern army advancing.
And from all your northern fastness here, the Viking spirit has dominated Europe.
I don't understand, Sir, why these northern tribes are so hostile.
For in his train today he's brought us half a score of boxes full of jewels and silks and more, about 30,000 golden marks wrested from the northern shires.
Your facts are to scare women and sell Northern bonds.
Northern girls are just educated differently.
Maybe a Northern woman is giving him some of her dinner and helping my beloved to come back home to me.
Only Northern Europe holds out against us.
You know as well as I, Peralta. we cannot keep Northern Europe in submission. until we have a reckoning with England.
Northern Africa, Europe as far east as the Urals. then the New World, to the north, to the south. west to the Pacific, over the Pacific to China and the Indies. will our empire spread.
Here's our line, running through Northern Ireland and here is Buggleskelly.
It's in the winter that you see the northern lights, isn't it?
That's not the northern lights. That's Manderley.
If I should happen into the Northern some night, would you show me around?
Probably at the Northern.
Find Roy and tell him to keep away from the Northern.
Northern Star, sir.
This is the road through the cemetery, at the northern gate.
The northern gate?
For the last six months I've had a job in the office of the Northern Railway Company at 1500 francs a year.
How is it you couldn't get a better job than that Turk's prison at the Northern Railway?

News and current affairs

In a wider context this could lead to a strengthening of the so-called Northern Dimension of the EU, where the goal is a free trade area to include all the countries around the Baltic Sea.
A host of problems remain unresolved: relations between Serbia and Montenegro and the status of Kosovo (not to mention Serbia's northern province of Vojvodina).
Turkey's refusal to grant the Americans access to military bases on its territory effectively ruled out a northern front in the war.
But it is also true that the northern Turkish part of Cyprus is denied access to free trade and other benefits from EU-membership.
More rockets and missiles fell on northern Israel in 33 days than hit Britain during all of World War II.
The insurgents in Iraq, as the British admit, were able in just three years to cope with their enemies' technological superiority in a way that the IRA in Northern Ireland was unable to do in 30 years.
A trip I took to a village in the Tigre region in northern Ethiopia shows why.
In northern Ethiopia, as in much of Africa, the rain cycle has changed markedly in recent years.
Of course, for them and for Israel, this was Hezbollah and the need to eradicate or at a minimum disarm it and force its fighters to a safe distance from settlements and towns in northern Israel.
And, if the stronger northern eurozone countries are unwilling to digest this transfer - and political resistance runs high - the ECB may be forced to recapitalize itself through money creation.
First, investors might be telling themselves that in the worst-case scenario, the northern European countries will effectively push out the weaker countries, creating a super-euro.
By using its good offices to mediate conflicts in places like Northern Ireland, Morocco, and the Aegean Sea, the US has helped in shaping international order in ways that are beneficial to other nations.
Regretfully, this corporate-driven NAFTA exacerbated the disparities and asymmetries between Mexico and its two richer northern neighbors.
Roosevelt's first case, against Northern Securities in 1902, was immensely controversial.
Not surprisingly, workers are leaving the eurozone's crisis countries, but not necessarily for its stronger northern region.
Many Germans today rightly feel that any system of fiscal transfers will morph into a permanent feeding tube, much the way that northern Italy has been propping up southern Italy for the last century.
The violence began in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri during a protest by Muslims against the cartoons, with the Christian Association of Nigeria reporting at least 50 Christians killed.
In northern Uganda, ICC charges against leaders of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army have helped bring an end to years of brutal fighting, and marginalized the LRA's chief, Joseph Kony.
Likewise, conspiracy websites in the countries of northern Europe claim that Germany's eagerness to support Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko against Russian President Vladimir Putin is a reenactment of Hitler's subjugation of Ukraine.
Plans to build a high-speed train connecting Italy with northern Europe continue to experience delays.
In the last round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks eight years ago, it was clear that a deal with Syria would automatically pave the way to a settlement with Lebanon, and an end to Hezbollah's threat to Israel's northern border.

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