North

Noun

 * 1) One of the four major compass points, specifically 0°, directed toward the North Pole, and conventionally upwards on a map.
 * Minnesota is in the north of the USA.
 * 1) The up or positive direction.
 * Stock prices are heading north.
 * 1) Above or higher
 * The price you're offering had better be north of the highest price this company has ever traded for. - Tom Aldredge in the movie Barbarians at the Gate
 * 1)  The positive or north pole of a magnet, which seeks Earth's magnetic North Pole (which, for its magnetic properties, is a south pole).

Derived terms

 * grid north
 * magnetic north
 * north by east
 * north by west
 * northbound


 * northeast
 * northerly
 * northern
 * northerner


 * northing
 * north-northeast
 * north-northwest
 * northward


 * northwardly
 * northwards
 * northwest
 * true north

Related terms

 * Norse

Adjective

 * 1) Toward the north; northward.
 * 2)   Of wind, from the north.
 * 3) Of or pertaining to the north; northern.
 * 4) Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by northbound traffic.
 * north highway 1

Adverb

 * 1) Toward the north; northward.
 * Switzerland is north of Italy.
 * 1)  Of wind, from the north.

Thesaurus
Dixie, Dixieland, Down East, East, East Coast, Middle Atlantic, Middle West, N, New England, North, North Central region, Northeast, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, South, Southeast, Southwest, Sunbelt, West, West Coast, Yankeeland, antarctic, arctic, austral, boreal, cardinal points, compass card, compass rose, degrees, east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, eastland, eastward, half points, hyperborean, lubber line, meridional, north about, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northerly, northern, northernmost, northland, northward, northwardly, northwards, northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, norward, occident, occidental, orient, oriental, quarter points, rhumb, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, southerly, southern, southernmost, southward, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, sunrise, sunset, the Coast, west, westbound, westerly, western, westernmost, westland, westward, wild West

Etymology
, from norþ:, cognate with various Germanic counterparts such as Dutch (en), all from a Proto-Germanic root *nurtha-, and cognate with Greek νέρτερος: possibly all ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European root *ner- "left, below", as north is to the left when one faces the rising sun

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ሰሜን
 * Arabic:
 * Aragonese:
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܓܪܒܝܐ (garbyā, garbyo)
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque:, helburu (fig.)
 * Belarusian: поўнач
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: norzh
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: မြောက်
 * Catalan: nord, septentrió
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin: 北 (běi)
 * Chuvash:
 * Crimean Tatar: şimal, sırt
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, (old)
 * Gagauz:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hebrew: גרביא (garbyā, garbyo)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Interlingue:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: lor, ler
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Kazakh: солтүстік
 * Khakas:
 * Korean: 북 (buk)


 * Koryak:
 * Kumyk:
 * Kurdish: bakur,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:, septentrio
 * Latvian: ziemeļi
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: വടക്ക് (vatakku)
 * Maltese: tramuntana, ta' fuq
 * Manchu: (amargi)
 * Maori: tokerau
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old Norse: norðr
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: nord
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: sever
 * Shor:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kaskazi, hanali
 * Swedish:, norr
 * Tamil: vatakku
 * Tatar: tönyaq
 * Telugu: ఉత్తరం (uttaram)
 * Thai: (tít nĕua)
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan: ,
 * Ukrainian: північ
 * Urdu:
 * Uzbek: shimol
 * Vietnamese: phuong bac
 * Volapük: nolüd
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: noarden, noard
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish: צפֿון
 * Yiddish: צפֿון


 * Catalan: nord, septentrió


 * Dutch: stijgende


 * Catalan: nord, septentrió
 * Dutch: (magnetisch)


 * Finnish:
 * Scottish Gaelic:

Adjective

 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: noordwaarts
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: βόρειος


 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Armenian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Hungarian:


 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Armenian:
 * Danish: nordlig
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek: βόρειος
 * Hungarian:


 * Ido:
 * Macedonian:, северна,
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Volapük: nolüdik


 * Armenian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * Hungarian:
 * Russian:


 * : iparreko, ipartar
 * : norzh
 * : nord, septentrional, boréal
 * : noard, noardlik
 * : nordwärts (1, 3), nördlich (2, 4)
 * : noard, noardlik
 * : nordwärts (1, 3), nördlich (2, 4)


 * : del nord, nordic, septentrional
 * : settentrionale, nordico
 * : amargi
 * : norðr
 * : nortista, do norte, nórdico , setentrional
 * : severný, severná , severné
 * : nortista, do norte, nórdico , setentrional
 * : severný, severná , severné

Adverb

 * Dutch: noordwaarts


 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Dutch: noordwaarts

Anagrams

 * Rt Hon, Thorn, thorn