What does the word northern mean?

Usage examples for northern

  1. Northern Rocky Mountains and Pacific region. – Seasoning of Wood by Joseph B. Wagner
  2. " Your mother is Northern," he once said to me, " and very few can approach her; but still, in the general, none compare for me with the Southern woman." – From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Captain A. T. Mahan
  3. Leave Northern Star at Skilk, for the time being. – Uller Uprising by Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr