Nagaland |
| proper noun - State in north-eastern India which has Kohima as its capital.
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Nagasaki |
| proper noun
- A large city in Western Kyushu, in Japan.
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Nagoya |
| proper noun
- The capital of Aichi prefecture in central Honshu in Japan.
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Nairobi |
| proper noun
- The capital of Kenya.
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Namibia |
| proper noun
- Country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Namibia.
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Namur |
| proper noun
- A province of Wallonia, Belgium.
- The capital city of Namur.
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Nancy |
| proper noun (plural Nancys)
- (given name, female) derived from Ann or Agnes
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Nantes |
| proper noun
- A city in west France, in historical Brittany
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Naples |
| proper noun
- Province of Campania, Italy.
- Capital city of the province of Naples.
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Nara |
| proper noun
- A prefecture in Japan.
- Prefecture capital of Nara.
- Something related with Nara area.
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narrow |
| verb
- To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
adjective (narrow, er)
- having a small width; not wide; slim; slender; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
- a hallway
- (figuratively) restrictive, Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
- a interpretation
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narrows |
| noun
- A narrow part of a navigable waterway
verb
- (third person singular of, narrow)
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Nashville |
| proper noun
- The capital city and second largest city of Tennessee.
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Nassau |
| proper noun
- The capital of the Bahamas.
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Natal |
| proper noun - A seaport and the state capital of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
- A former British colony and province of South Africa. It is now called KwaZulu?-Natal province.
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Nauru |
| proper noun
- Country in Oceania. Official name: Republic of Nauru.
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Navarre |
| proper noun
- An autonomous community in northern Spain, once and independent kingdom of Basque origin.
- A part of the Northern Basque Country (France), often referred to as Basse Navarre in French, to distinguish it from the Navarre belonging to Spain.
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Nazarene |
| proper noun
- A person from Nazareth.
- (kat' exochen, κα�' �ξ��ήν) Jesus Christ. Usually with 'the'.
- Members of the Church of the Nazarene.
- I have been a for several years, I joined the church in 1946.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to Nazareth or its people.
- Of or relating to the Church of the Nazarene.
- Holiness Today is a magazine.
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Nazareth |
| proper noun
- An ancient town in the Middle East, today in the state of Israel.
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N'Djamena |
| proper noun
- The capital of Chad.
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Neapolitan |
| proper noun
- (countable) An inhabitant or resident of Naples.
- (uncountable) The language of Naples, Italy.
adjective
- Pertaining to Naples.
- Describing an ice cream combination of the flavours chocolate, vanilla and strawberry in order. Also called neapolitan ice cream.
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Neb. |
| abbreviation - Nebraska
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Nebraska |
| proper noun - A (USstate) Capital: Lincoln.
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needles |
| noun - Plural of needle.
verb - First person present tense of to needle.
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Negro |
| noun
- (archaic) A person of sub-Saharan African descent.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica, "negro," 11th ed., page 344,
- : In certain of the characteristics . . . the negro would appear to stand on a lower evolutionary plane than the white man, and to be more closely related to the highest anthropoids. The characteristics are length of arm, prognathism, a heavy massive cranium with large zygomatic arches, flat nose depressed at base, &c.
- (archaic) A person with black or dark brown skin.
- 1963, w:Martin Luther King, Jr., Martin Luther King, w:Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Letter from a Birmingham Jail,
- : Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American . Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom, and something without has reminded him that it can be gained.
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Negros |
| proper noun
- An island of the Philippines, located in the Visayas
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nelson |
| noun - (cricket) a score of 111, sometimes considered to be unlucky (supposedly from the belief that Lord Nelson had one eye, one arm and one leg (disputed))
- a wrestling hold in which a wrestler's arm is locked behind his back
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Nepal |
| proper noun
- A country in South Asia between China and India.
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Nepalese |
| noun
- A person from Nepal or of Nepalese descent.
proper noun
- The national language of Nepal.
adjective
- Of, from, or pertaining to Nepal, the Nepalese people or the Nepalese language.
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Neptune |
| proper noun
- The Roman god of the ocean and of earthquakes.
- The eighth planet in our solar system, represented in astronomy and astrology by �.
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Netherlands |
| proper noun the Netherlands
- A country in northwestern Europe bordering Germany and Belgium. Official name: Kingdom of the Netherlands.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the Netherlands.
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Netherlands Antilles |
| proper noun
- Autonomous territory in the Caribbean part of The Netherlands. Official name: Netherlands Antilles.
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Nevada |
| proper noun - A (USstate) Capital: Carson City.
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Newark |
| proper noun
- Any of several place names, see
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New Britain |
| proper noun
- An island of Papua New Guinea
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New Brunswick |
| proper noun
- A province in eastern Canada with capital Fredericton.
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New Caledonia |
| proper noun
- Overseas territory of France in Oceania. Official name: Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies.
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Newcastle |
| proper noun - A city in northeastern England.
- A city in New South Wales, Australia, situated at the mouth of the Hunter River.
- A town in Northern Ireland.
- A town located in Lincoln County, Maine.
- A village located in Dixon County, Nebraska.
- A town located in McClain? County, Oklahoma.
- A town located in Young County, Texas.
- A town located in King County, Washington.
- A town located in Weston County, Wyoming.
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New Delhi |
| proper noun
- National capital of India, located in the national capital territory of Delhi.
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New England |
| proper noun
- Collectively, the six states of the United States colonized by the English in the 17th century, namely Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
- (Australia) a region in the north of the state of New South Wales.
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Newfoundland |
| proper noun - A large island off the coast of eastern Canada, which, along with Labrador, composes the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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New Guinea |
| proper noun
- A large island in the Pacific Ocean, north of Australia, whose territory is divided between Indonesia in the west and Papua New Guinea in the east.
- (Formerly) the northern part of what is now called Papua New Guinea, administered as a separate territory to Papua.
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New Hampshire |
| proper noun - A (USstate) Capital: Concord.
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New Ireland |
| proper noun
- An island of the Bismarck Archipelago, a German colony from 1884 to 1921; governed by Australia from 1921 and then by Papua New Guinea from 1975 to the present day.
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New Jersey |
| proper noun
- A northeast state of the United States of America. Capital: Trenton.
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New Mexico |
| proper noun
- A (USstate) Capital: Santa Fe.
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New Orleans |
| proper noun
- The largest city in the State of Louisiana, United States, United States of America. It is an industrial and distribution center, a major seaport, and known for its rich cultural heritage, especially its music and cuisine. The city is on the banks of the Mississippi.
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Newport |
| proper noun
- A city in South Wales
- A city in Rhode Island
- A city in Kentucky
- Many other places of the same name
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New South Wales |
| proper noun
- One of the six states of Australia, situated in the south-eastern part of the continent, with its capital at Sydney.
- (historical) (1770 - 1850s) The original name conferred on Australia by w:Captain James Cook, Captain James Cook, and used to describe the entire eastern portion of the continent.
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Newton |
| noun , (plural: Newton)
- newton (unit of measure)
proper noun
- The name of many English places, from the Old English new settlement
- An English habitational surname for someone from any of these places
- w:Isaac Newton, Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher
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New World |
| proper noun the new, New world, World
- The continents North America and South America combined
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New York |
| proper noun
- A state of the United States of America. Capital: Albany.
- The largest city in New York State, and formerly the capital of the USA.
adjective
- Of a style, particularly of food, originating in New York.
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New York State |
| proper noun
- The State of New York. Postal abbreviation: NY. "New York State" is used more often than "New York", to distinguish it from New York City.
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New Zealand |
| proper noun
- A country in Oceania, to the east of Australia. Official name: New Zealand. Abbreviation: NZ or Aotearoa
- The islands of New Zealand, especially the North Island, South Island and nearby coastal islands.
- The Realm of New Zealand, including the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau and the Ross Dependency.
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NH |
| abbreviation
- New Hampshire, a state of the United States of America.
initialism
- nursing home, Nursing home.
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Niagara |
| noun
- A torrent or overwhelming flood
proper noun
- A river which flows from Lake Erie, over Niagara Falls into Lake Ontario
- A town in New York state
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Nicaragua |
| proper noun
- Country in Central America; Official name: Republic of Nicaragua.
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Nice |
| proper noun
- A city in southeast France on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, capital of the department of Alpes-Maritimes.
- Nice (pronounced /ni:s/ or /naɪs/) is also a family name found in the United Kingdom, U.S.A., and other western countries.
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Nicosia |
| proper noun
- The capital of Cyprus.
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Nidwalden |
| proper noun
- A canton of Switzerland.
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Niger |
| proper noun
- A country in Western Africa. Official name: Republic of Niger.
- (rivers) A river in Africa that flows into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria.
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Nigeria |
| proper noun
- Country in Western Africa. Official name: Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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Nile |
| proper noun
- (rivers) Usually considered to be the longest river in the world, the Nile flows 6,677 km (4,150 miles) through Khartoum and Cairo in Africa into the Mediterranean Sea.
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Nome |
| proper noun - seaport in West Alaska
- cape in West Alaska
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Norfolk |
| proper noun
- A maritime county of eastern England bordered by Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Suffolk and the North Sea.
- A language of Norfolk Island, also spelt Norfuk.
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Norfolk Island |
| proper noun
- External territory of Australia, in the Pacific Ocean. Official name: Territory of Norfolk Island.
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Norge |
| proper noun
- A brand name of major household appliances.
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normal |
| noun
- (geometry) A line or vector that is perpendicular to another.
adjective
- According to norms or rules.
- Organize the data into third normal form.
- Usual; ordinary
- Felicia baked the bread the normal way.
- Healthy; not sick or ill
- John is feeling normal again.
- Pertaining to a school to teach teachers how to teach.
- My grandmother attended Mankato State Normal School.
- (informal, pejorative towards homosexuals) Heterosexual.
- We don't like your sort around here - this bar is for normal people.
- (chemistry) of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution.
- (physics) (Of a mode in an oscillating system) In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency; See w:normal mode, normal mode
- (geometry) Perpendicular to a tangent line or derivative of a surface in Euclidean space.
- The interior normal vector of a ideal perfect sphere will always point toward the center, and the exterior normal vector directly away, and both will always be co-linear with the ray whose' tip ends at the point of intersection, which is the intersection of all three sets of points.
- (algebra) (Of a subgroup) whose cosets form a group
- (algebra) (Of a field extension of a field K) which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K
- (probability theory) (Of a distribution) which has a very specific bell curve shape
- (complex analysis) (Of a family of continuous functions) which is pre-compact
- (set theory) (Of a function from the ordinals to the ordinals) which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology
- (linear algebra) (Of a matrix) which commutes with its conjugate transpose
- (functional analysis) (Of a Hilbert space operator) which commutes with its adjoint
- (category theory) (Of an epimorphism) which is the cokernel of some morphism
- (category theory) (Of a monomorphism) which is the kernel of some morphism
- (category theory) (Of a morphism) which is a normal epimorphism or a normal monomorphism
- (category theory) (Of a category) in which every monomorphism is normal
- (Of a real number) whose digits, in any base representation, enjoy a uniform distribution
- (topology) (Of a topology) in which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods
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Norman |
| noun
- A person whose ancestors are from Normandy or who resides in Normandy.
- A member of the mixed Scandinavian and Frankish peoples who in the 11th century were a major military power in Western Europe and who conquered the English in 1066.
- (rare) A Northman.
proper noun
- The langue d'oí¯l variant, closely related to the French of "Ile de France" (i.e. Paris), spoken in Normandy and the Channel Islands, which influenced the development of Quebec French (until the mid 20th century), and was for several centuries the ruling language of England (see Anglo-Norman).
- (given name, male)
adjective
- Of or pertaining to Normandy or its inhabitants (present or past).
- Relating to the Norman language.
- vocabulary
- (rare) Referring to the dialect of French spoken there.
- Relating to the Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans after the Norman Conquest, characterized by large arches and heavy columns.
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Normandy |
| proper noun
- Former region of France, divided into the regions Haute-Normandie and Basse-Normandie.
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North |
| proper noun the North
- The Union during the American Civil War.
- The northern states of the United States.
- The northern part of any region.
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North Africa |
| proper noun
- the northern part of the continent of African.
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North America |
| proper noun
- The continent that is the northern part of the Americas; that part east of the Pacific Ocean, west of the Atlantic Ocean, north of South America and south of the Arctic Ocean, and consisting of the following countries:
Mainland
- Canada
- Mexico
- United States
Caribbean
- Anguilla (British dependency)
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Aruba (part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Bermuda (British dependency)
- British Virgin Islands (British dependency)
- Cayman Islands (British dependency)
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe (overseas department of France)
- Haiti
- Jamaica
- Martinique (overseas department of France)
- Montserrat (British dependency)
- Netherlands Antilles (part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
- Puerto Rico (U.S. free associated state)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos Islands (British dependency)
- U.S. Virgin Islands (territory of the USA)
Northern Atlantic
- Greenland (a self-governing dependency of Denmark)
Central America
- Belize
- Costa Rica
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Nicaragua
- Panama
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Northampton |
| proper noun
- A town in Northamptonshire, England
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Northamptonshire |
| proper noun
- An midland county of England bordered by Leicestershire, Rutland, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire.
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North Brabant |
| proper noun - A province of the Netherlands.
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North Carolina |
| proper noun
- A state of the United States of America. Capital: Raleigh.
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North Dakota |
| proper noun - A (USstate) Capital: Bismarck.
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Northeast |
| proper noun
- The northeastern states of the United States.
- The northeastern counties of England including Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Teesside and Durham.
- The northeastern part of any region.
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northern |
| adjective
- Of, facing, situated in, or related to the north.
- (context, of a wind) blowing, Blowing from the north; northerly.
- Characteristic of the North of England (usually capitalised).
- Les Dawson was a famous Northern comedian.
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Northern Ireland |
| proper noun
- A six-county state occuping the northeastern part of the Island of Ireland, currently a constituent part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Northern Territory |
| proper noun
- Territory in northern Australia which has Darwin as its capital.
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North Holland |
| proper noun - A province of the Netherlands.
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North Island |
| proper noun - One of the two major islands making up New Zealand.
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North Korea |
| proper noun Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- Country in East Asia whose territory consists of the northern part of Korea.
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North Rhine-Westphalia |
| proper noun
- One of the component states of Germany according to the current administrative division of the nation.
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North Sea |
| proper noun north, North sea, Sea
- An inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between Britain (in the west), Scandinavia (in the east) and Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and France (in the south).
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Northumberland |
| proper noun
- The most northerly county of England bordered by County Durham, Cumberland, Scotland and the North Sea.
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Northwest Territories |
| proper noun
- territory, Territory in northern Canada which has Yellowknife as its capital.
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North Yorkshire |
| proper noun
- (from 1974) A county in north east England, comprising the North Riding of Yorkshire as well as parts of the West and East Ridings.
category:English counties
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Norton |
| proper noun
- Any of many placenames from words meaning north and enclosure
- An English habitational surname from any of these places
- A British motorcycle manufacturer
(wikipedia, Norton (motorcycle))
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Norway |
| proper noun
- One of the Scandinavian countries. Official name: Kingdom of Norway (kongeriket Norge in Bokmí¥l, or kongeriket Noreg in Nynorsk).
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Norwich |
| proper noun
- A city in England, the county town of Norfolk
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Nottingham |
| proper noun
- a town in Nottinghamshire, England.
- the University of Nottingham: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk.
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Nottinghamshire |
| proper noun
- A north-midland county of England bordered by Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire.
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Novara |
| proper noun
- A province of Piedmont, Italy.
- A town, the capital of Novara.
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Nova Scotia |
| proper noun
- A province in eastern Canada, capital Halifax.
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Novi Sad |
| proper noun
- Novi Sad, the administrative and largest city of the Serbia, Serbian province of Vojvodina.
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Nubia |
| proper noun
- An ancient kingdom in the valley of the upper Nile bordering present Egypt and Sudan.
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NV |
| abbreviation
- Nevada, a state of the United States of America.
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NY |
| abbreviation
- New York, a state of the United States of America.
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