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Hyperborean
[hahy-per-bawr-ee-uhn, -bohr-, -buh-ree-]
noun
Classical Mythology.one of a people supposed to live in a land of perpetual sunshine and abundance beyond the north wind.
an inhabitant of an extreme northern region.
adjective
of or relating to the Hyperboreans.
(lowercase)of, relating to, or living in a far northern region.
Hyperborean
/ ˌɪəˈɔːɪə /
noun
Greek myth one of a people believed to have lived beyond the North Wind in a sunny land
an inhabitant of the extreme north
adjective
(sometimes not capital) of or relating to the extreme north
of or relating to the Hyperboreans
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Hyperborean1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Hyperborean1
Example Sentences
In the remotest North, so far away it was at the back of the North Wind, was a blissful land where the Hyperboreans lived.
A Hyperborean wouldn’t be scared senseless up here, or worried about getting down.
I half hoped Kronos had been squashed under that Hyperborean giant’s butt, but I knew better.
“Neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed/in their sacred blood,” the poet Pindar wrote of the Hyperboreans in the fifth century B.C.
The Hyperborean was cradling a Native American totem pole wrapped in furs, humming to it like a baby.
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