Northernmost

Definition: Northernmost

Northernmost

Adjective

1. Situated farthest north; "Alaska is our northernmost state".

Date "northernmost" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)

Note: Northernmost \North"ern*most`\, adjective. [Compare to Northmost.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Northernmost

Synonym: northmost (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Northernmost

English words defined with "northernmost": autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous ♦ endemic ♦ indigenous ♦ June 21 ♦ Kachin, Kachinic ♦ midsummer ♦ North Pole, northern Europe, northmost, Northumberland ♦ Solomon Islands, Solomons, summer solstice ♦ Thule ♦ ultima Thule, upper limit. (references)

Specialty definitions using "northernmost": DEM. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Northernmost

Domain	Title
Books	Absolute and relative pollen diagrams from northernmost Fennoscandia (reference) Agreed Frontier; Ladakh and India's Northernmost Borders 1846-1947 (reference) Geologic Evolution of the Northernmost Coast Ranges and Western Klamath Mountains, California (Igc Field Trip Guidebooks Series) (reference) Pohjois-Vienan poronhoito : talonpoikien poronhoidon alue, ominaislaatu, ikèa, alkuperèa ja kehityslinjat vuoteen 1922 = Peasant reindeer breeding in northernmost Russian Karelia : its origins and development up to 1922 (reference) Proterozoic copper mineralizations in northernmost Norway (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Northernmost

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	Magnetic declination and dip station Observations at Boundary Marker No. 1 This was at the northernmost point on the Alaska-Canada Boundary Party of J. T. Watkins - transportation by Coast Guard Cutter Bear.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		A candidate for world record for northernmost volleyball game.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	A Northernmost man and his wife, Mec-oo-sha and Ah-ma, standing next to sledge, two Inuits who served as helpers to Frederick Cook during his expedition to the North Pole.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Historic Usage: Northernmost

Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	Germany renounces in favour of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers all rights and title over the territory comprised within the following limits: from the Baltic Sea southwards to the point where the principal channels of navigation of the Nogat and the Vistula (Weichsel) meet: the boundary of East Prussia as described in Article 28 of Part II (Boundaries of Germany) of the present Treaty; thence the principal channel of navigation of the Vistula downstream to a point about 6-1/2 kilometres north of the bridge of Dirschau; thence north-west to point 5-1/2 kilometres south-east of the church of Guttland: a line to be fixed on the ground, thence in a general westerly direction to the salient made by the boundary of the Kreis of Berent 8-1/2 kilometres north-east of Schoneck: a line to be fixed on the ground passing between Muhlbanz on the south and Rambeltsch on the north; thence the boundary of the Kreis of Berent westwards to the re-entrant which it forms 6 kilometres north-north-west Schoneck; thence to a point on the median line of Lonkener See: a line to be fixed on the ground passing north of Neu Fietz and Schatarpi and south of Barenhutte and Lonken; thence the median line of Lonkener See to its northernmost point; thence to the southern end of Pollenziner See: a line to be fixed on the ground; thence the median line of Pollenziner See to its northernmost point; thence in a north-easterly direction to a point about 1 kilometre south of Koliebken church, where the Danzig-Neustadt railway crosses a stream: a line to be fixed on the ground passing south-east of Kamehlen, Krissau, Fidlin, Sulmin (Richthof), Mattern, Schaferei, and to the north-west of Neuendorf, Marschau, Czapielken, Hoch- and Klein-Kelpin, Pulvermuhl, Renneberg, and the towns of Oliva and Zoppot; thence the course of the stream mentioned above to the Baltic Sea. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Northernmost

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Japan	Hokkaido is Japan's northernmost island, approximately 700 miles north of Tokyo. (references)
	Chad	The northernmost Saharan zone averages less than 200 mm (8") of rainfall annually. (references)
	Guatemala	Guatemala is the northernmost country in Central America with Mexico to the north and west, Belize and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast and the Pacific Ocean to the south. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Northernmost

"Northernmost" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Northernmost" is used about 44 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	44	51,500

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Northernmost

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
northernmost	3
country northernmost scandinavian	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Northernmost

Language		Translations for "northernmost"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		më veriori. (various references)

Bulgarian		най-северен. (various references)

Chinese		最最北. (various references)

Czech		nejsevernìjší. (various references)

Finnish		pohjoisin. (various references)

German		nördlichst. (various references)

Greek		βορειότατοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		legészakibb. (various references)

Italian		il più settentrionale, il più a nord. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		北海�" (northernmost of four main islands of Japan), 最北端 (northernmost tip). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		さいほくた�" (northernmost tip), ほっかいどう (northernmost of four main islands of Japan). (various references)

Pig Latin		orthernmostnay

Portuguese		muito para o norte, habitante do norte. (various references)

Romanian		cel mai nordic. (various references)

Russian		самый северный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		najseverniji. (various references)

Spanish		situado más al norte, más norte. (various references)

Swedish		nordligast (farthest north). (various references)

Turkish		en kuzeydeki. (various references)

Ukranian		найбільш північний. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Northernmost"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "northernmost" (pronounced nô"rthernmō'st)
7	-th er n m ō' s t	southernmost.
6	-er n m ō' s t	westernmost.
4	-m ō' s t	almost, foremost, innermost, outermost, uppermost, utmost.
3	-ō' s t	cohost, goalpost, guidepost, lamppost, outpost, overdosed, seacoast, signpost, sternpost.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Northernmost

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-h-m-n-n-o-o-r-r-s-t-t"
	-2 letters: tormentors.
	-3 letters: hornstone, northerns, tormentor.
	-4 letters: honorers, hormones, mesotron, monteros, moorhens, nonmetro, northern, northers, notornes, resmooth, restroom, smoothen, smoother, torments, torrents.
	-5 letters: enroots, honorer, hooters, hormone, hornets, horrent, mentors, monster, montero, moonset, moorhen, mooters, mothers, mottoes, nonhero, nonhome, norther, onshore, reshoot, retorts, rhetors, roomers, rooster, rooters, rotters, sheroot, shooter, shorten, shorter, shotten, smother, snorter.
	Words containing the letters "e-h-m-n-n-o-o-r-r-s-t-t"
	+4 letters: anthropocentrism, northeasternmost, northwesternmost.
	+5 letters: anthropocentrisms.
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