| situated in the northern part of a centrally located area in some geographical region | situated in regions of the north |
| being in or of a region of the United States generally including states of the upper Mississippi valley and Great Lakes region lying north of the Ohio River and the southern boundaries of Kansas and Missouri and between the western boundary of Pennsylvania and the eastern boundaries of Montana and Wyoming and Colorado | in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line |
| | coming from the north; used especially of wind |
| | oriented toward the north |