Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Northern regions; the north.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun [capitalized] Same as
Septentrio . - noun The north.
- Northern; septentrional.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The north or northern regions.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the north; northern.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The
north or northern regions. - adjective obsolete Of or relating to the north;
northern .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Sometimes our ancestors called them the Seven Oxen, the "oxen of the celestial pastures," from which the word septentrion (_septem triones_, seven oxen of labor) is derived.
Astronomy for Amateurs Camille Flammarion 1883
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Also in the head of that sea of Galilee, toward the septentrion is a strong castle and an high that hight Saphor.
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And Ind is divided in three principal parts; that is, the more that is a full hot country; and Ind the less, that is a full attempre country, that stretcheth to the land of Media; and the three part toward the septentrion is full cold, so that, for pure cold and continual frost, the water becometh crystal.
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Au levant, au septentrion et au midi, elle a une grande plaine; au ponant, une montagne au pied de laquelle sont batis les faubourgs.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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From the Latin word _trio_ (ox of labor) has come septentrion, the seven oxen.
Astronomy for Amateurs Camille Flammarion 1883
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[21] The lower septentrion, the seven stars of the Great Bear.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Au levant, au septentrion et au midi, elle a une grande plaine; au ponant, une montagne au pied de laquelle sont batis les faubourgs.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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_septentrion_, where he thought he must find land before or beyond the said place: and thus he intended to repair the ships which were already opening from the past heat, and the supplies, of which he had a large quantity, because of the necessity of taking them to this island and the great difficulty in getting them from Castile, and which were becoming worthless and damaged.
The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 Various 1884
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“cold septentrion blasts,” and which, when it was long after transferred to the theatre by Colman, was unable to endure the rough aspect of a British audience.
Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846
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