true north

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[U] north according to the earth's AXIS (= the imaginary line through the earth's centre from north to south) compareMAGNETICNORTH

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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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true northEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus true northEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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