North Pole
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3.1
- proper noun
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Polo Norte
- So there is a faster build up of heat here at the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and the Arctic generally, than anywhere else on the planet.
- ice at the North Pole
- reach the North Pole
- water at the North Pole
I hope that we can grant your wish from the North Pole.
- I hope that we can grant your wish from the North Pole.
- Rockefeller was part was a big patron of Byrd's expeditions to the North Pole and the South Pole.
- He's that busy going to the North Pole?
- And now let's say you collapse that sphere so that the North Pole and the South Pole meet at the equator.
- Suppose we're walking straight towards the North Pole, right?
- He says if I propose to you to join my North Pole expedition, your option is momentous.
- Kids write letters to Santa asking for Christmas miracles and wishes and so that they address it to the North Pole UPS store saying they'll shred it.
- So remember we had a sphere of the North Pole and we took all these shortest paths from the North Pole to the South Pole, all of those lines.
- It's about this scientist who works on something that involves her having to go to the North Pole.
- All the while I brought it to the North Pole with me.
Examples
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Welcome to the North Pole.
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The remote and pristine image of the North Pole helps to give it a special place in human imagination.
Academic text (2000) -
It's all the way from the North Pole.
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No country currently owns the North Pole or the Arctic region around it.
Academic text (2008) -
As you probably already know, the North Pole is is disappearing.
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Tomorrow is Christmas, and nobody at the North Pole will have a gift if I don't get busy.
Fiction book (1998) -
However, there was no navigational challenge on 29 July, the day we reached the North Pole, a precisely determined location.
Academic text (2000) -
The North Pole.
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The visual image and symbolism of open water at the North Pole are readily imagined.
Academic text (2000) -
My friend is planning a trip to the North Pole to experience the midnight sun.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'north' (the cardinal direction) + 'pole' (one end of Earth's axis), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to the northern axial point. This place-name compounding is cross-linguistically regular and follows transparent noun + noun composition, making it easily understandable at B1 level.
Etymology
North Pole is a simple picture: north is the top direction on maps and pole is like a point or tip, so together they mean the 'top' point of the Earth. So, the name refers to the 'northernmost' place on the planet.