Meaning

3 senses
  1. An inhabitant of the northern regions; a northerner.

  2. The northern pike.

  3. A film or other dramatic work set primarily in the late 19th or early 20th century in the north of North America, primarily in western Canada but also in Alaska, often with a Mountie as the protagonist.

More definitions
  • a dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans

Examples

315 sentences
  1. Have you ever seen the northern lights?

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  2. More people live in the northern part of the city.

    deIm Nordteil der Stadt wohnen mehr Menschen.

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  3. Our office is on the northern side of the building.

    ruНаш офис находится на северной стороне здания.

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  4. My house is in the northern part of the city.

    ruМой дом расположен в северной части города.

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  5. Hokkaido is in the northern part of Japan.

    deHokkaidō liegt im Norden Japans.

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Origin

From Middle English northerne, from Old English norþerne, from Proto-West Germanic *norþrō

From Middle English northerne, from Old English norþerne, from Proto-West Germanic *norþrōnī, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrōnijaz. Cognate with Old High German nordrōni and Old Norse norrœnn.

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Forms

plural: northerns
Singularnorthern
Pluralnortherns

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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