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Northland

Definition: Northland

Northland

Noun

1. Any region lying in or toward the north.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "northland" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1867. (references)

Synonym: Northland

Synonym: septentrion (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Northland

Etymologies containing "northland": Norland. (references)

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Modern Usage: Northland

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Riders of the Northland (1942)

Northland (1942)

Gene of the Northland (1915)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Northland

DomainTitle

References

  • Northland Cranberries, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Edvard Grieg: Boy of the Northland (reference)

  • Northland (reference)

  • Northland Spirit (reference)

  • Northland Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (reference)

  • Northland Wild Flowers: A Guide for the Minnesota Region (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Northland

Illustrations:
Northland

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Photo Album: Northland

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

S.S. Northland [sic] at Sault Ste. Marie.Credit: Library of Congress.

S.S. Northland [sic] at Sault Ste. Marie.Credit: Library of Congress.

Str. Northland [sic].Credit: Library of Congress.

S.S. Northland [sic], leaving Harbor Springs, Mich.Credit: Library of Congress.

S.S. Northland [sic] at Harbor Springs, Mich.Credit: Library of Congress.

Northland Steamer. Stairway of Northland Steamer I.Credit: Library of Congress.

Northland Steamer. Stairway of Northland Steamer II.Credit: Library of Congress.

Boats. Northland boat on Potomac, horizontal.Credit: Library of Congress.

Northland Steamer. Stairway of Northland Steamer.Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Northland

"Northland" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Northland" is used about 6 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%6143,867

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

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Usage in Company Names: Northland

CountryName
USA

Northland Cranberries, Inc.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Northland

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  northland

165

  northland ontario railway

18

  northland ontario

148

  library northland

18

  northland pioneer college

118

  northland cranberry

17

  northland cable

62

  company insurance northland

17

  northland college

60

  camp northland

16

  northland inn

38

  ford northland

15

  northland mall

37

  bus northland ontario

15

  group northland

34

  church community northland

14

  camper northland

29

  credit northland union

13

  northland area federal credit union

28

  northland realty

13

  baptist bible college northland

27

  christian northland school

12

  library northland public

27

  mortgage northland

12

  northland refrigerator

26

  northland services

11

  insurance northland

26

  northland fishing tackle

10

  college community northland

26

  northland appliance

10

  northland volkswagen

23

  building northland

10

  college community northland technical

22

  hospital lukes northland st

10

  group inc northland

21

  communication northland

10

  northland tackle

21

  lodge northland

9

  church northland

20

  northland pontiac

9
  

northland cable television

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Northland

Language Translations for "northland"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

Veri I Largët, Vend Verior. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

Северна част На Страна (North), Северна Страна, Север (Nor', North). (various references)

   

Czech

  

Severská Zemì. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Északi Része Az Országnak. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

orthlandnay

   

Portuguese

  

Países Do Norte, Deslocação Para O Norte. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

Северные айоны, Север (North). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

severna zemlja (norland), deo norveške. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Región Septentrional. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Nordstaterna. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

Північні Країни, Північні айони, Північ (Norland, North), "алека Північ, Скандинавія (Scandinavia). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

miền bắc (norland). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Northland

Derivations

Words beginning with "northland": northlands. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Northland" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hortulan, Nordlund, Northan, Northella, Northload, northman. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Northland"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "northland" (pronounced nô"rthla'nd)
5-th l a' n dSouthland.
4-l a' n dBadland, cropland, dreamland, fairyland, Fantasyland, farmland, Fatherland, flatland, grassland, heartland, hinterland, homeland, inland, lowland, mainland, marshland, Midland, moorland, motherland, outland, overland, parkland, sunland, Timberland, wasteland, wetland, Wonderland, woodland.
3-a' n dampersand, armband, backhand, bandstand, beforehand, broadband, contraband, farmhand, firebrand, forehand, freehand, grandstand, handstand, headband, longhand, newsstand, nightstand, quicksand, reprimand, seastrand, secondhand, shorthand, spaceband, stagehand, undermanned.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Northland

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-h-l-n-n-o-r-t"

-1 letter: lanthorn.

-2 letters: althorn, norland, troland.

-3 letters: dalton, hadron, harlot, holard, ladron, lardon, natron, nonart.

-4 letters: adorn, ahold, altho, donna, dotal, hoard, honan, honda, horal, loath, loran, lotah, nodal, north, notal, radon, talon, tardo, thorn, tolan, tolar, tonal, torah, trona.

-5 letters: alto, anon, dahl, darn, dart, dato, dhal, doat, dolt, dona, doth, drat, halo, halt, hand.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-h-l-n-n-o-r-t"
 

+1 letter: northlands.

 

+4 letters: unchlorinated.

 

+5 letters: dechlorinating, dechlorination, labyrinthodont.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Northland


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 6F 72 74 68 6C 61 6E 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    ---    .-.    -    ....    .-..    .-    -.    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#111 &#114 &#116 &#104 &#108 &#97 &#110 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 006F 0072 0074 0068 006C 0061 006E 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

488184867478678070

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Usage Frequency
9. Names: Company Usage
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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