north
/noɹθ/ noun A2- 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. · Minnesota is in the north of the USA.
- The up or positive direction. · Stock prices are heading back towards the north.
- 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).
- In a church: the direction to the left-hand side of a person facing the altar.
Plural norths
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There were four of them in this country, and they ruled the people who live in the North and South and East and West.
Fortunately, the Witches of the North and South were good, and I knew they would do me no harm; but the Witches of the East and West were terribly wicked, and had they not thought I was more powerful than they themselves, they would surely have destroyed me.
“There lived here then, away at the North, a beautiful princess, who was also a powerful sorceress.
Then they began to pass around the dusky, piquant, Arlesian sausages, and lobsters in their dazzling red cuirasses, prawns of large size and brilliant color, the echinus with its prickly outside and dainty morsel within, the clovis, esteemed by the epicures of the South as more than rivalling the exquisite flavor of the oyster, North.
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