Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Farthest north.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated at the point furthest north.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Farthest north.
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- adjective Farthest
north .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective situated farthest north
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Examples
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The winds whipped the coastline and felled power lines in northernmost Cagayan Province.
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You know, Miami is often called the northernmost Latin American city in the world, where you can get by just fine speaking Spanish.
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To tame it would mean possibilities of civilization in northernmost America which are otherwise utterly lacking.
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But on the rare occasions when I have—hiking a mountain pass, hitchhiking to the North Cape (called the northernmost point in Europe), rolling around in the mud of some stream bed in the Canadian Rockies (that was the summer after college,) snorkeling off a hidden beach in the Caribbean, or trekking among the sheep on the Isle of Skye—I couldn't feel happier or more alive.
Far-Flung Observations Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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They crossed into the province of Cisalpine Gaul, Gaul on this side of the Alps, as the Romans called northernmost Italy.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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They crossed into the province of Cisalpine Gaul, Gaul on this side of the Alps, as the Romans called northernmost Italy.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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They crossed into the province of Cisalpine Gaul, Gaul on this side of the Alps, as the Romans called northernmost Italy.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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They crossed into the province of Cisalpine Gaul, Gaul on this side of the Alps, as the Romans called northernmost Italy.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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The presidential campaigns of 2000 and 2004 brought almost biblical floods of Republican bumper stickers to what has been called the northernmost - and perhaps most influential - point of the Bible Belt.
Dan Treul: Tide Turning In GOP West Michigan Stronghold 2008
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They probably sat at the foot of Mount Aegaleos, opposite the islet of St. George, that is, the northernmost mooring point of the Greek fleet.
The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004
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