NORTH SIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does north side mean? 

• NORTH SIDE (noun)
  The noun NORTH SIDE has 1 sense:

1. the side that is on the north

  Familiarity information: NORTH SIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTH SIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The side that is on the north

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("north side" is a kind of...):

side (a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location)

 Context examples 

At the same time I knew that Jonathan was not far off; looking around I saw on the north side of the coming party two other men, riding at break-neck speed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Mr. Trelawney, you are the best shot—you and Gray will take this long north side, with the five loopholes; it's there the danger is.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east of London Bridge.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Suddenly, with a loud huzza, a little cloud of pirates leaped from the woods on the north side and ran straight on the stockade.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

On the two short sides of the house, east and west, there were only two loopholes; on the south side where the porch was, two again; and on the north side, five.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Dr. Livesey take the north side, if you please; Jim, the east; Gray, west. The watch below, all hands to load muskets.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

After dinner the squire and the doctor sat by the captain's side awhile in consultation; and when they had talked to their hearts' content, it being then a little past noon, the doctor took up his hat and pistols, girt on a cutlass, put the chart in his pocket, and with a musket over his shoulder crossed the palisade on the north side and set off briskly through the trees.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)