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▸ noun:  The direction towards the pole to the left-hand side of someone facing east, specifically 0°, or (on another celestial object) the direction towards the pole lying on the northern side of the invariable plane.
▸ noun:  The up or positive direction.
▸ 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).
▸ noun:  (ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction to the left-hand side of a person facing the altar.
▸ 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.
▸ adjective:  (ecclesiastical) Designating, or situated in, the liturgical north (in a church, the direction to the left-hand side of a person facing the altar).
▸ adjective:  (colloquial) More or greater than.
▸ adverb:  Toward the north; northward; northerly.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To turn or move toward the north.
▸ noun:  The northern part of a region (alternative letter-case form of north), especially:
▸ noun:  (US) The northern states of the United States.
▸ noun:  (US) The Union during the American Civil War.
▸ noun:  (UK) The North of England, a cultural region.
▸ noun:  (Ireland) Northern Ireland.
▸ noun:  North Korea.
▸ noun:  (politics, economics) A group of countries mainly lying north of the equator, including most of the West and the First World and much of the Second World.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A civil parish of Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada, named for its location.
▸ noun:  A town in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, United States, named after John North.
▸ noun:  A number of townships in the United States, listed under North Township.
▸ noun:  Alternative letter-case form of North (“a northern region; the inhabitants thereof”). [The northern part of a region (alternative letter-case form of north), especially:]

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