North Country

American  

noun

1. the part of England north of the Humber estuary.

2. Alaska and the Yukon territory of Canada (as a geographical and economic unit).

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North Country British  

noun

1. another name for North 1

2. the geographic region formed by Alaska, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut

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Example Sentences

He’d recently worked with Conor McPherson on “Girl From the North Country,” a fictional interpretation of Bob Dylan’s song catalog, and thought the playwright might be interested.

From Los Angeles Times

At the moment, PBS.org is streaming recent productions of Cole Porter’s “Kiss Me, Kate!,” the Bob Dylan-scored “Girl From the North Country,” David Henry Hwang‘s “Yellow Face” and the Pulitzer Prize-winning mental health rock musical “Next to Normal.”

From Los Angeles Times

But given Democrats’ coalition of apoplectic college-educated voting addicts, the off-calendar special election in New York’s North Country would have been a competitive race.

From Slate

With her eponymous debut album and 1966's North Country Maid, she became part of the "British Invasion" of the US pop charts.

From BBC

“This is an incredibly emotional moment for me,” Foster said in accepting her award, “because ‘True Detective: North Country’ was just a magical experience.”

From Los Angeles Times