Northerner

[ nawr-ther-ner ]

/ ˈnɔr ðər nər /

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noun

(sometimes lowercase) a native or inhabitant of the North, especially the northern U.S.

(lowercase) norther.

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Origin of Northerner

First recorded in 1825–35; northern + -er¹

Words nearby Northerner

northern corn-leaf blight, northern corn rootworm, Northern Cross, Northern Crown, Northern Dvina, Northerner, northern giant petrel, northern harrier, Northern Hemisphere, northern hog sucker, Northern Ireland

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How to use Northerner in a sentence

A Northerner brought to Georgia decades ago as a child, George never developed any sympathy for the Southern cause.
Oprah’s latest Book Club pick, ‘The Sweetness of Water,’ is a miraculous debut|Ron Charles|June 15, 2021|Washington Post
The Southern white man has the advantage of far more actual contact with Negroes than the Northerner.
Alex Haley’s 1965 Playboy Interview with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.|Alex Haley|January 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was the clutch of something racial and inherited—a something which the Northerner hardly knows.
Marriage la mode|Mrs. Humphry Ward
He was no ice-bound northerner, to nurse his fires deep within, and to wax more stony the more they burned.
God Wills It!|William Stearns Davis

The terrible, slow-kindling anger of this Northerner made Durnovo catch his breath.
With Edged Tools|Henry Seton Merriman
In shipwreck it is the exceptional Northerner who forgets his duty, and the exceptional Southerner who is bound by it.
The Old World in the New|Edward Alsworth Ross
But the northerner was not suited by nature for the hot and enervating climate of the south.
Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations|Archibald Sayce

British Dictionary definitions for Northerner

Northerner

/ (ˈnɔːðənə) /

noun

(sometimes not capital) a native or inhabitant of the north of any specified region, esp England or the US

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