north-central

1. 1.

   being in or of a region of the United States generally including states of the upper Mississippi valley and Great Lakes region lying north of the Ohio River and the southern boundaries of Kansas and Missouri and between the western boundary of Pennsylvania and the eastern boundaries of Montana and Wyoming and Colorado

   Similarnorthern
2. 2.

   situated in the northern part of a centrally located area in some geographical region

   “the north-central part of Russia”

   Similarnorth

Questions about north-central

What does north-central mean?

north-central means "being in or of a region of the United States generally including states of the upper Mississippi valley and Great Lakes region lying north of the Ohio River and the southern boundaries of Kansas and Missouri and between the western boundary of Pennsylvania and the eastern boundaries of Montana and Wyoming and Colorado". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in north-central?

north-central has 3 syllables: north--cen-tral. The stress falls on "north-".

Is north-central a common word?

north-central is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.