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n. - The property of being to the opposite of south

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Usage examples (5)
  • Adjective : a northern constellation
  • I loved them for many reasons – for their melodies, of course, and for their humour and their wit, and for their northernness.
  • True to my roots, I pronounce bath with the TRAP vowel as John Wells says in Accents of English, it would seem a denial of my northernness to change this.
  • It leads back, for example, to ideas about the nature of northernness, to the Idea of North
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