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Cimmerian

[si-meer-ee-uhn]

adjective

  1. Classical Mythology.Ģżof, relating to, or suggestive of a northern people believed to dwell in perpetual darkness.

  2. very dark; gloomy.

    deep, Cimmerian caverns.



Cimmerian

/ ²õɪˈ³¾ÉŖÉ™°łÉŖÉ™²Ō /

adjective

  1. (sometimes not capital) very dark; gloomy

ā€œCollins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridgedā€ 2012 Digital Edition Ā© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 Ā© HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. Greek myth one of a people who lived in a land of darkness at the edge of the world

ā€œCollins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridgedā€ 2012 Digital Edition Ā© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 Ā© HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms

  • Cimmerianism noun
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of Cimmerian1

First recorded in 1580–1600; from the Latin plural noun °ä¾±³¾³¾±š°ł¾±Ä«, from the Greek plural noun °­¾±³¾³¾Ć©°ł¾±“Ǿ±, a mythical people mentioned in book 11 of the Odyssey as living at the edge of Oceanus, the stream that surrounds the earth, in a city wrapped in mist and fog, where the sun never shines, near the entrance to Hades
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The Cimmerian warrior slashes his way across Hyboria on a mission that begins as a personal vendetta but turns into an epic battle against a supernatural evil.

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Before he even had time to yell, he dropped like a rock into the Cimmerian bowels of the glacier.

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Who can forget the endless close-ups of the feuding husband and wife in Ingmar Bergman's Cimmerian masterpiece Scenes from a Marriage?

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Schwarzenegger is almost as much of a self-made man as the great Cimmerian himself.

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Beyond, lies the ice-bound land of giants—Jƶtunheim, giant’s home—dark like the Cimmerian land, and peopled with beings as weird and terrible as the Cyclops or the Gorgons.

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