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northern has 1 distinct synonym spread across 2 of its 5 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is southern.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line
“Northern liberals”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for northern come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
situated in or coming from regions of the north
“the northern hemisphere”
a dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans