hyperborean
nounEtymology
From Late Latin hyperboreanus, cognate with Classical Latin hyperboreus, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβόρεος (huperbóreos), composed of ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + βόρειος (bóreios, “northern”). By surface analysis, nearly hyper- + boreal. See also Ὑπερβόρεοι (Huperbóreoi).
- derived from ὑπερβόρεος
- derived from hyperboreanus
Definitions
One of a race of people living in the extreme north, beyond the north wind.
- The Hyperboreans venerated Apollo over the other gods.
Any person living in a northern country, or to the north.
Pertaining to the extreme north of the earth
Pertaining to the extreme north of the earth; or (usually humorous) to a specific northern country or area.
- The hyperborean or frozen sea.
- Hovv, by the fineſt art, the native robe / To vveave; hovv, vvhite as hyperborean ſnovv, / To form the lucid lavvn; […]
- You could have knelt down, damn it, Kinch, when your dying mother asked you, Buck Mulligan said. I’m hyperborean as much as you. But to think of your mother begging you with her last breath to kneel down and pray for her. And you refused.
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Alternative letter-case form of hyperborean.
The neighborhood
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