northern hemisphere

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   the hemisphere that is to the north of the equator

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Questions about northern hemisphere

What does northern hemisphere mean?

northern hemisphere means "the hemisphere that is to the north of the equator".

Is northern hemisphere a common word?

northern hemisphere 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.