north
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɔːθ/
enpr: nôrth
ipa: /noɹθ/
ipa: [no̞ɹθ]
ipa: /noɹt/
ipa: /nɔəθ/
ipa: /noːθ/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /nɔː(ɹ)θ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)θ
Etymology: From Middle English north, from Old English norþ, from Proto-West Germanic *norþr, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nér (“below (the surface)”). The meaning developed either from "region where the sun is below (the earth)" or from "left side of someone who turns to the east when praying".
Cognates
Cognate with various Germanic counterparts such as Yola noardth, nordh (“north”), North Frisian noor, nord, nuurd, Nuurđ (“north”), Saterland Frisian Noude, Nudde (“north”), West Frisian noard (“north”), Dutch noord (“north”), German Nord (“north”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk nord (“north”), Faroese, Icelandic norður (“north”), Swedish nord, norr (“north”); also with Ancient Greek νέρτερος (nérteros), ἐνέρτερος (enérteros, “below”), Russian нора (nora, “hole”), Lithuanian nėrōvė (“mermaid, nymph”), Oscan 𐌍𐌄𐌓𐌕𐌓𐌀𐌊 (nertrak, “left”), Umbrian nertru (“left”), Sanskrit नरक (naraka, “hell”), Tocharian B ñor (“below”).
Senses: examples: text: He lived in north Germany.
text: She entered through the north gate.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the north; northern.
examples: text: The most dangerous ones are those that develop during October and November and that follow a north path affecting the western part of the island.
ref: 1987, Ana María Brull Vázquez, Rosa E. Casas, Cuba, page 23:
glosses: Toward the north; northward.
examples: text: The north wind was cold.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of wind, from the north.
examples: text: north highway 1
text: Traffic was doing the speed limit on North I-45 one minute and had come to a stand-still the next.
ref: 2001, Joseph R Miller, Pipe Tobacco and Wool:
glosses: Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by northbound traffic.
examples: text: […] the high church had liked its clergy to preside at the Eucharist in an ad orientem position; the low church advocated what was called the north end position; but the Liturgical Movement asked the priest to take a basilical position, facing liturgical west, and now both Anglican factions could agree on this third position without either of them losing face.
ref: 2011, Michael Attridge, Catherine E. Clifford, Gilles Routhier, Vatican II: Expériences canadiennes – Canadian experiences, University of Ottawa Press, →ISBN, page 145:
text: Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated at ecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), not geographical or magnetic southeast. Thus, […] The north side faces the river (beyond the subdivision behind the church), and the south side, Ashley River Road. […] At St. Andrew's, ecclesiastical north, south, east, and west correspond to geographical northeast, southwest, southeast, and northwest. Unless otherwise indicated, compass directions given in this book are ecclesiastical, not geographical, reference points.
ref: 2014, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706-2013, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 365:
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Designating, or situated in, the liturgical north (in a church, the direction to the left-hand side of a person facing the altar).
examples: text: The wedding ended up costing north of $50,000.
text: The price you're offering had better be north of the highest price this company has ever traded for.
ref: 1993, Barbarians at the Gate, spoken by Charlie Hugel (Tom Aldredge):
text: Some of the windscreens we replace cost north of $1800[.]
ref: 2021 December 23, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 57, column 2:
glosses: More or greater than.
Synonyms: sense: of the north
word: boreal
sense: of the north
word: septentrional
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word: Almaguer North
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word: Bacsil North
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word: Barangay North
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word: Bath and North East Somerset
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word: Bowers Gifford and North Benfleet
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word: Cabungaan North
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word: Camp Pendleton North
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word: Cleobury North
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word: Dibua North
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word: Great North Road
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word: Guanan North
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word: Havelock North
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word: Khartoum North
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word: Lydbury North
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word: Mandeville North
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word: Matabeleland North
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word: Mid North Coast
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word: Namerican
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word: Navotas North
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word: NoHo
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word: NoLIta
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word: NoMad
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word: NorAm
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word: Norbury
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word: Norfolk
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word: Norrington
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word: North Acton
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word: North Adams
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word: North Africa
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word: north Africa
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word: North America
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word: Northampton
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word: north Andean deer
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word: North Aston
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word: North Attleborough
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word: Northavon
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word: North Ayrshire
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word: North Azerbaijan
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word: North Ballachulish
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word: North Barrow
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word: North Bay
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word: North Bend
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word: North Bergen
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word: North Berwick
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word: North Blyth
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word: North Borneo
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word: North Bovey
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word: North Branch
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word: North Burnett
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word: North Cadbury
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word: North Caloocan
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word: North Camp
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word: North Cape
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word: North Carolina
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word: North Carolinaese
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word: North Carolina pine
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word: North Cave
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word: North Central Aurora Hill
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word: North Centro
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word: North Charleston
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word: North Cheam
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word: North Chicago
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word: North Chungcheong
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word: Northchurch
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word: North Claines
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word: North Coast
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word: North Cockerington
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word: North Col
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word: North Connel
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word: Northcott
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word: north country
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word: north countryman
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word: North Coventry
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word: North Cowichan
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word: North Curry
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word: North Cypress
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word: North Cypress-Langford
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word: North Dakota
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word: North Devon
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word: North District
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word: North Dorset
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word: North Downs
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word: North Duffield
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word: North Dumfries
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word: North Dundas
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word: North East Derbyshire
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word: North East Lincolnshire
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word: North Elmham
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word: North Elmsall
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word: North End
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word: North Esk
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word: Northey
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word: North Fairview
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word: North Fambridge
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word: North Fayette
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word: North Ferriby
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word: north forty
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word: North Fremantle
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word: North Frisia
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word: North Frodingham
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word: north geographical pole
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word: North Glengarry
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word: North Greenwich
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word: North Gyeongsang
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word: North Hamgyeong
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word: North Hamgyong
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word: North Harrow
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word: North Haverhill
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word: North Hayling
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word: North Hempstead
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word: North Hero
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word: North Hertfordshire
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word: North Hill
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word: North Hills
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word: North Hinksey
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word: North Hudson
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word: North Huish
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word: North Huron
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word: North Hykeham
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word: northish
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word: North Island
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word: North Jeolla
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word: North Kazakhstan
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word: North Kellyville
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word: North Kensington
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word: North Kesteven
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word: North Kilworth
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word: North Kingstown
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word: North Korea
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word: North Lanarkshire
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word: northland
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word: Northland
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word: North Lauderdale
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word: North Leith
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word: North Leverton with Habblesthorpe
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word: North Lincolnshire
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word: North Little Rock
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word: North Luffenham
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word: North Macedonia
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word: north magnetic pole
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word: North Melbourne
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word: North Meols
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word: North Mesopotamian Arabic
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word: North Miami
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word: North Miami Beach
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word: North Middlesex
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word: North Molton
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word: northmost
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word: North Muskham
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word: North Mymms
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word: northness
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word: North Newnton
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word: North Nibley
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word: North Norfolk
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word: North Northamptonshire
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word: North Okanagan
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word: North Olmsted
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word: Northolt
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word: Northorpe
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word: North Pacific right whale
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word: North Palmyra
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word: North Petherton
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word: North Philadelphia
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word: North Pingan
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word: North Platte
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word: North Poblacion
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word: North Poorton
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word: North Port
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word: North Pyeongan
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word: North Pyongan
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word: North Pyungan
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word: North Queensferry
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word: North Rhine
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word: North Richland Hills
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word: North Rode
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word: North Royalton
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word: North Sea
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word: North Seaton
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word: North Sheen
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word: North Shields
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word: North Shore
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word: North Shropshire
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word: North Slope
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word: North Slope Borough
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word: North Somercotes
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word: North Somerset
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word: North Star
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word: North Stoneham
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word: North Stormont
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word: North Sunderland
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word: North Sydney
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word: North Tawton
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word: north temperate zone
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word: North Thoresby
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word: North Tonawanda
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word: North Turton
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word: North Tyne
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word: North Tyneside
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word: Northumberland
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word: Northumbria
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word: North Vancouver
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word: North Vernon
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word: North Villazar
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word: North Walbottle
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word: North Walsham
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word: North Warnborough
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word: North Warwickshire
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word: North Weald
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word: North Weald Bassett
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word: North Wembley
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word: North Western Province
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word: Northwich
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word: north wind
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word: North Wingfield
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word: North Woodbury
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word: Northwood
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word: Norwood
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word: North Woods
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word: North Woolwich
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word: North Wootton
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word: North Wraxall
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word: North York
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word: North Yorkshire
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word: Norton
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word: Norwich
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word: Palmerston North
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word: Poblacion North
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word: Sabang North
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word: San Antonio North
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word: Trinity Bay North
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word: Waimate North
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word: Wellington North