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Definition: Northland |
NorthlandNoun1. 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: NorthlandSynonym: septentrion (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Northland |
| Etymologies containing "northland": Norland. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Riders of the Northland (1942) Northland (1942) Gene of the Northland (1915) | |
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![]() | 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. | ||
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Northland Cranberries, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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. |
| 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 Países Do Norte, Deslocação Para O Norte. (various references) Северные айоны, Север (North). (various references) severna zemlja (norland), deo norveške. (various references) Región Septentrional. (various references) Nordstaterna. (various references) Північні Країни, Північні айони, Північ (Norland, North), "алека Північ, Скандинавія (Scandinavia). (various references) miền bắc (norland). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "northland": northlands. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "northland" (pronounced nô"rthla'nd) |
| 5 | -th l a' n d | Southland. |
| 4 | -l a' n d | Badland, 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 d | ampersand, armband, backhand, bandstand, beforehand, broadband, contraband, farmhand, firebrand, forehand, freehand, grandstand, handstand, headband, longhand, newsstand, nightstand, quicksand, reprimand, seastrand, secondhand, shorthand, spaceband, stagehand, undermanned. |
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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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 6F 72 74 68 6C 61 6E 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. --- .-. - .... .-.. .- -. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N o r t h l a n d |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)488184867478678070 |
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