north of
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- adposition
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al norte de
- And she is taking her young daughter to a Girl Scout camp just north of Santa Barbara.
- miles north of
- just north of
- north of the river
And this was in the city right north of where Ellison lived.
- And this was in the city right north of where Ellison lived.
- French have territory in South America just north of Brazil called Guillen Francais.
- It was a small hill out to the north of us.
- I'm here at Thunder Hill Raceway north of San Francisco.
- I visited a drug rehabilitation commune north of San Francisco called Synanon.
- Not very big either, you know, good ways north of Milwaukee, good ways South of Green Bay.
- So one of the things was in that region, so it's just north of Afghanistan.
Examples
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It's a National Park that's only a couple of hours north of San Francisco.
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- Just north of Atlanta.
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23 miles north of the White House.
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Our 1999 conference will take us north of the border to our friendly neighbor, Canada.
Academic text (1999) -
I am from Ontario, Canada, a small town north of Toronto.
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We're in central Alaska, the Big Lonely, just north of the Arctic Circle.
Fiction book (1993) -
And this is a town called coup Beauvoir, which is north of Paris.
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Behind a small country church, a few miles north of Memphis, Donny Ray Black is laid to rest.
Fiction book (1995) -
In 1984, Clark Air Base, north of Manila, had a population of 10,000 personnel.
Academic text (2012) -
The ski resort is located just north of the city, offering breathtaking views.
Synonyms
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The direction on a compass that points exactly to the North Pole
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
north + of
The meaning 'in a position towards the north relative to a point' is directly and compositionally derived from 'north' (a cardinal direction) combined with the relational preposition 'of'. This spatial, comparative construction is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English prepositional patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
North of comes from reading a map or using a compass: north is usually shown at the top, so a place north of another sits above it on the map. So saying a village is north of the river simply means it is 'in a position towards the north' from the river.