NORTHERN EUROPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does northern Europe mean? 

• NORTHERN EUROPE (noun)
  The noun NORTHERN EUROPE has 1 sense:

1. the northernmost countries of Europe

  Familiarity information: NORTHERN EUROPE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTHERN EUROPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The northernmost countries of Europe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("northern Europe" is a kind of...):

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Holonyms ("northern Europe" is a part of...):

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

 Context examples 

A country in northern Europe, island between the Greenland Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of the UK.

(Iceland, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes a person having origins in any of the countries of northern Europe such as Belgium, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, or Great Britain.

(Northern European, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, consisting of a peninsula on the north coast of Germany and several major islands.

(Denmark, NCI Thesaurus)

This is 10 to 30 times higher than the largest auroral potentials observed at Earth, where only several thousands of volts are typically needed to generate the most intense auroras — known as discrete auroras — the dazzling, twisting, snake-like northern and southern lights seen in places like Alaska and Canada, northern Europe, and many other northern and southern polar regions.

(Jupiter's Auroras Present a Powerful Mystery, NASA)