northern ireland

1. 1.

   a division of the United Kingdom located on the northern part of the island of Ireland

   BroaderEuropean country

   Part ofUnited KingdomIrelandEurope

   PartsBangorBelfast

Questions about northern ireland

What does northern ireland mean?

northern ireland means "a division of the United Kingdom located on the northern part of the island of Ireland".

Is northern ireland a common word?

northern ireland 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.