Definition of "northerner" []

• A native or inhabitant of the north, especially the northern United States. (noun)

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• "He is a tall, thin Chinese northerner with a pockmarked face."
• "The northerner was a hundred feet away and widening the gap."
• "Nor should one stop with Charlemagne (who, for purposes of argument, might be dubbed a "northerner"), but go back to Emperor Justinian whose Italian war in the middle of the sixth century was not only an effort to reconstitute Imperial power throughout the Mediterranean but a determined and brutal crusade against the Ostrogoths who had accepted Arian Christianity."