North and South
Hemispheric axis endpoints
North and South refers to the novel by Elizabeth Gaskell (1854–55) depicting class conflict in industrial England, or to the American Civil War division between Union and Confederate states.
In Cockney rhyming slang, it means mouth: Shut your North and South.
The phrase also describes any fundamental geographic or economic divide: the global North and South.
- compassDevice showing cardinal directions
- directionsGuidance for reaching somewhere
- polesLong sticks or extremities
- arcticOf extreme northern cold
- polar oppositeComplete contrary in nature
civil war · divided · hemisphere · migration · magnetic · cardinal · latitude · equator · boundary · opposing · Carolina · Korea · Korean War · border · above the line · map · orientation · upward
- Class DramasPride and Prejudice, Downton Abbey, Great Expectations, My Fair Lady, Pygmalion
- Classic RomancePride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Emma, Romeo and Juliet
- historical dramasBridgerton, Downton Abbey, Poldark, The Crown, Victoria
- Pop GroupsBackstreet Boys, NSYNC, Spice Girls, Destiny's Child, TLC
- romance fictionlove stories, romance novel, romance novels, contemporary romance, romantic fiction
- Classic NovelsAnna Karenina, Madame Bovary, War and Peace, Middlemarch, Crime and Punishment
geographic/political division (us civil war)
North and SouthBlue and Gray
American conflict's opposing uniforms
north, south, northern, southern, northerly, southerly, northward, southward, northwards