north of 60
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.58 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Northern Canada, usually including the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon, approximately above the 60th parallel north.
Canadian usage; Informal; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "[...] Most importantly, Magnetic North suggests a politics of locations — mine, yours, voices from the past, from north of sixty, from newly arrived Canadians — because it ..."
- "That was before the Johnsons had gone north of Sixty. But they were wandering, and steadily upward."