north of

phrase

of a number or value

: greater than

Auburn coach Bruce Pearl earned north of $3.9 million this season …

—Tom Green

Fighting as he is now to keep his approval rating north of 40%, November 2009 probably looks to Obama like the good old days.

—Elias Isquith

Cognacs of similar quality typically go north of $100.

—Jack Bettridge

compare south of

Examples of north of in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Despite his setting in that rural corner of New England, a two-hour drive north of New York City, the World Cup would not pass him by. — Amelie Claydon, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026

Smothermon is the owner of the Guinea Pig Sanctuary, in Salisbury, Massachusetts, roughly 40 miles (64 kilometers) north of Boston. — ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026

Less than 24 hours after the successful Long March 12 mission, and about 1,300 miles (2,100 kilometers) north of the Wenchang launch site, a Long March 2C rocket lifted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, in Shanxi province. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 17 Aug. 2026

One competitor spent the weekend driving between Mandan, the Sitting Bull Stampede (in Mobridge, South Dakota), and the Killdeer Mountain Roundup, north of Medora—a circuit of roughly four hundred miles. — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1978, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for north of

• above
• foxglove
• hereof
• thereof
• whereof
• dove
• glove
• love
• shove
• hereinabove