NORTHLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does northland mean? 

• NORTHLAND (noun)
  The noun NORTHLAND has 1 sense:

1. any region lying in or toward the north

  Familiarity information: NORTHLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTHLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any region lying in or toward the north

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("northland" is a kind of...):

region (a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth)

 Context examples 

They often speculated over his past, and tried to conjure up (from what they had read and heard) what his northland life had been.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"What have you to offer him in that northland life?"

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

That the northland still drew him, they knew; for at night they sometimes heard him crying softly; and when the north wind blew and the bite of frost was in the air, a great restlessness would come upon him and he would lift a mournful lament which they knew to be the long wolf-howl.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)