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What does north mean?

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Noun
  1. One of the four major compass points, specifically 0°, directed toward the North Pole, and conventionally upwards on a map, abbreviated as N.
  2. The up or positive direction.
  3. Above or higher
  4. (physics) The positive or north pole of a magnet, which seeks the magnetic pole near Earth's geographic North Pole (which, for its magnetic properties, is a south pole).
Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to the north; northern.
  2. Toward the north; northward.
  3. (meteorology) Of wind, from the north.
  4. Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by northbound traffic.
  5. (colloquial) More or greater than.
Adverb
  1. Toward the north; northward.
Verb
  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To turn or move toward the north.
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