Definition of Northernmost

1. Adjective. Situated farthest north. "Alaska is our northernmost state"

Exact synonyms: Northmost
Similar to: North

Definition of Northernmost

1. a. Farthest north.

Definition of Northernmost

1. Adjective. Farthest north. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Northernmost

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Northernmost

northern shoveler
northern shovelers
northern shrike
northern shrimp
northern shrimps
northern snakehead
northern storm petrel
northern territory
northern white cedar
northern whiting
northern woodsia
northerner
northerners
northernest
northernly
northernness
northerns
northers
northing
northings
northland
northlands
northness
northnesses
norths
northside
northupite
northward

Literary usage of Northernmost

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Oregon and California, and the Other Territories of the North by Robert Greenhow (1845)
"In those maps, Jesso, the northernmost of the Japan Islands, appears as part of the Asiatic continent, and Kamtchatka and the Kurile Islands are represented ..."

2. Under the Rays of the Aurora Borealis: In the Land of the Lapps and Kvæns by Sophus Tromholt (1885)
"THE northernmost TOWN IN THE WOULD—A SAD BUT BUSY TOWN— A ... THE SUN—AT THE FOOT OF THE NORTH CAPE—WHICH is TUB northernmost PROMONTORY IN EUROPE ? ..."

3. The Confederation of the British North American Provinces: Their Past by Thomas Rawlings (1865)
"THE cultivated plants yield the greatest products near the northernmost limit in which they will grow. I have been forcibly impressed with this fact, ..."

4. Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship by Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Neumann Sverdrup (1898)
"... THE northernmost POINT OF THE OLD WORLD ing which I went up into the crow's-nest again, to have a last look at the land. I now saw that the height I had ..."

5. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1878)
"The northernmost Fish. The northernmost fish known was found by Captain Feil- den during the Arctic Expedition of 1875-76, and is a Sal- monid of the same ..."

6. In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times by Fridtjof Nansen (1911)
"... of 1482 and 1486, where Greenland is placed to the north of Norway, and Marco Polo's travels, northernmost Europe and the North Polar regions on ..."

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