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Definition of Northern

Northern

  1. Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west.
  2. In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind.

Northern Quotations

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John F. Kennedy

The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.
Hillary Clinton

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
Quentin Crisp

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black.
Henry Louis Gates

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.
Jerry Saltz
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Northern Translations

northern in Afrikaans is noordelik
northern in Danish is nordlig
northern in Dutch is noords, noordelijk
northern in French is septentrional
northern in Italian is nordico, settentrionale
northern in Portuguese is do norte
northern in Spanish is septentrional, boreal
northern in Swedish is norra, nordlig, nordisk

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