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Plural of north

regular plural

The plural of north is norths.

Forms of north

Singularnorth /nɔːθ/
Pluralnorths
Countablecountable and uncountable

Meaning of north

  1. noun The direction towards the pole to the left-hand side of someone facing east, specifically 0°, or (on another celestial object) the direction towards the pole lying on the northern side of the invariable plane.
  2. noun The up or positive direction.
  3. noun 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).

Full definition of north

Questions about the plural of north

What is the plural of north?
The plural of north is norths.
Is north countable?
North is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: north (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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