northern

IPA: nˈɔrðɝn

An inhabitant of the northern regions.
(fishing) The northern pike.
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.
The Northern Line of the London Underground.
A surname.
(rail transport) a steam locomotive of the 4-8-4 wheel arrangement.

Examples of "northern" in Sentences

I left home on the 22d day of this month for what I call a northern trip.
It's really refreshing to look at what I call northern smallmouth fishing.
EGELAND: Well, what I called northern Uganda was the world's largest neglected crisis.
Her face pulsed a rosiness like that quiver in winter skies which we call northern lights.
Cuyler, deputy commissary-general; Mearsin, deputy clothier-general, in what they call the northern department, are entirely of the same opinion.
In a speech Tuesday, Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir said the north will not withdraw from Abyei, which he described as "northern Sudanese land".
He might have expected Chopin with a beak: lyrical cascades and liquid melodies that give its relative, the blackcap, the name "northern nightingale".
On the thirteenth of August he leaves the island by what he calls the northern mouth of the river [Boca Grande], and begins to strike salt water again.
Hay, deputy quarter-master-general; Cuyler, deputy commissary-general; Mearsin, deputy clothier-general, in what they call the northern department, are entirely of the same opinion.