Norden

The direction towards the pole to the left-hand side of someone facing east, specifically 0°, or (on another celestial object) the direction towards the pole lying on the northern side of the invariable plane

• Tom comes from the north.

  Tom kommt aus dem Norden.

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• The story begins in a small town in the north of Germany in the 1920s.

  Die Geschichte beginnt in einer kleinen norddeutschen Stadt in den 1920ern.

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Norden

The up or positive direction

Norden

The positive or north pole of a magnet, which seeks the magnetic pole near Earth's geographic North Pole (which, for its magnetic properties, is a south pole)

Norden

In a church: the direction to the left-hand side of a person facing the altarselten

Of or pertaining to the north; northern

Toward the north; northward

Of wind, from the north

Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by northbound trafficselten

Designating, or situated in, the liturgical north (in a church, the direction to the left-hand side of a person facing the altar)selten

More or greater than

Toward the north; northward; northerly

• The boys have gone north.

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• The ship is headed north.

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