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northerner

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Northerner may refer to: Translation of Beifangren "北方人", endonym for someone from Northern China Northerner (train) , in New Zealand Northerner (schooner) , a shipwreck in Lake Michigan Northern (country subdivision) , someone from a northern country subdivision ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Gloucester showed no desire to unleash a northern invasion of the south, although a few northerners did receive minor pickings there. ▪ In the ensuing riot, a hut containing refugees seeking to flee the violence, mainly northerners, ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Northerner \North"ern*er\, n. One born or living in the north. A native or inhabitant of the Northern States; -- contradistinguished from Southerner . [U. S.]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A native or inhabitant of the north of a region (or of the world as a whole), such as one of the northern United States, the north of Norway, etc.

Usage examples of northerner.

More amazingly, Grak had recently escorted another group of northerners across the forbidding desert.

The masters like to say that Daryans and northerners are louts and liars, goat-footed and braying like asses.

As part of the reconsolidation of America as a White Herrenvolk democracy, Northerners joined with Southerners in denouncing the period of Radical Reconstruction as a disastrous mistake and the Blacks as unfit for government.

The northerners had taken with them all the rolling stock they could collect but word came that a southbound train would be going through next day.

Because Washington, a Virginian, was certain to become President, it was widely agreed that the vice presidency should go to a northerner, and Adams was the leading choice.

Beside Craig two men who had been talking quietly together in an incomprehensible language-they were northerners, definitely, judging from their heavy blunt features, white faces, fairish hair: Balts or Poles, perhaps Czechs?

He was a Bostonian, a Northerner, a stranger in a strange land who had found in the Legion a refuge from his exile.

He turned to Ekman, the Minister for Munitions, a pallid Northerner with thinning gingery hair.

While Hankow and Chiang Kai-shek were both negotiating for his alliance, Feng as a result of various defaults by the northerners, captured Chengchow, causing the northern army in the area to retreat behind the Yellow River, which in turn uncovered Hsuchow.

The northerners had worshiped hills and stones and graves and trees until a generation ago, and some still did in secret, hoarding their heathen ways despite knowing that such falsehoods would bring disaster down on their heads.

He gave a smug chuckle typical of the southern Malayali when considering the speech of the Northerner.

Unlike northerners, who learn to drive on ice, Miamians have no genetic familiarity with surface traction.

Most of the Yankees decided that fleeing through the shells offered a better chance of survival than being disemboweled in a blood-sodden trench, and so a horde of Northerners scrambled out of the railbed and ran across the open ground.

No pretext was too flimsy to shorten a march or to cause a halt--the northerners did the same, but with them we had a controlling power in the shape of Shaykh Furayj.

The Reverend Starbuck, oblivious of the bullets that whipsawed around his horse, cheered his Northerners on.