Usually means: Pertaining to the north direction.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word northern:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. Northern, northern: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. northern: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. northern: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. northern: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Northern, northern: Vocabulary.com
  6. Northern, northern: Wordnik
  7. Northern, northern: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Northern, northern: Wiktionary
  9. northern: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. northern: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. northern: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Northern, northern: Dictionary.com
  13. northern: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Northern (automobile), Northern (genre), Northern (state), Northern (train operating company), Northern: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Northern: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. northern: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Northern: Rhymezone
  18. Northern: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. northern: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. northern: Free Dictionary
  21. northern: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. northern: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. northern: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. northern: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. northern: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. northern: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See northernmost as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of, facing, situated in, or related to the north; northerly.
adjective:  (of a wind) Blowing from the north; northerly.
adjective:  (British) Characteristic of the North of England (usually capitalised)
noun:  An inhabitant of the northern regions; a northerner.
noun:  (fishing) The northern pike.
noun:  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.
adjective:  (British) Characteristic of the North of England (usually capitalised).
noun:  The Northern Line of the London Underground.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (rail transport) a steam locomotive of the 4-8-4 wheel arrangement.

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