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Hyperborean

[ hahy-per-bawr-ee-uhn, -bohr-, -buh-ree- ]

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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

/ ˌ��ɪ��əˈ��ɔː��ɪə�� /

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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Hyperborean¹

< Latin hyperbore ( us ) < Greek ��ó��ǲ� beyond the north wind, northern, polar ( hyper- hyper- + ��ǰ�é�� the north, the north wind) + -an; Boreas

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Hyperborean¹

C16: from Latin hyperboreus, from Greek huperboreos, from hyper- + Boreas the north wind

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Not by ship nor yet on foot might one find the road to the marvelous meeting place of the Hyperboreans.

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A Hyperborean wouldn’t be scared senseless up here, or worried about getting down.

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I half hoped Kronos had been squashed under that Hyperborean giant’s butt, but I knew better.

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“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.

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The Hyperborean was cradling a Native American totem pole wrapped in furs, humming to it like a baby.

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