Near Northn.
/ˌnɪə ˈnɔːθ/, U.S. /ˌnɪr ˈnɔrθ/ 1. Australian and New Zealand. China, Japan, and other countries of East and South-East Asia. Cf. Far East n.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Far East > [noun]
the High Levant1497
Far East1852
Farther East1876
Near North1935
the golden triangle1973
1935 Otago Daily Times (N.Z.) 15 July 6/3 [He] revealed an authoritative and informative familiarity with the problems of the Far East, which he preferred to describe from New Zealand's viewpoint as ‘the Near North’.
1948 E. Tipping in R. J. Gilmore & E. D. Warner Near North 1 It took a war—and the torture and death of thousands of Australian soldiers in Japanese prison camps—to drive it home to most Australians that Britain's Far East was their Near North.
1965 Listener 29 Apr. 630/1 Today..the Australians anxiously call the Far East the ‘Near North’.
1993 R. Hughes Culture of Complaint ii. 87 He [sc. the author's Australian father] called it the Far East, meaning the Near North, and would not have considered going there.
2. Chiefly Canadian. The southern edge of northern Ontario, extending in a band for 300 miles across Canada, and bounded by the Ottawa River on the east and Lake Superior on the west.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > Canada > parts of
north-west1682
down east1817
Atlantic provinces1855
prairie province1873
prairie provinces1878
mainland1901
maritimes1926
Palliser triangle1934
Newfie1942
sand-hill1949
Near North1952
1952 D. F. Putnam Canad. Regions xv. 325/1 The Near North..is the beginning of the north with its emphasis on forests, mining, small part time bush farms and tourist resorts.
1997 E. White Farewell Symphony (1998) v. 205 After my sister recovered she was signed over by her husband to a lock-up ward in a hospital on the Near North.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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