Hyperborean

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hyperborean \Hy`per*bo"re*an\, a. [L. hyperboreus, Gr. ?; "ype`r
     over, beyond + ?. See {Boreas}.]
     1. (Greek Myth.) Of or pertaining to the region beyond the
        North wind, or to its inhabitants.
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     2. Northern; belonging to, or inhabiting, a region in very
        far north; most northern; hence, very cold; fright, as, a
        hyperborean coast or atmosphere.
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              The hyperborean or frozen sea.        --C. Butler
                                                    (1633).
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hyperborean \Hy`per*bo"re*an\, n.
     1. (Greek Myth.) One of the people who lived beyond the North
        wind, in a land of perpetual sunshine.
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     2. An inhabitant of the most northern regions.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Hyperborean
       n : (Greek mythology) one of a people that the ancient Greeks
           believed lived in a warm and sunny land north of the
           source of the north wind

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  98 Moby Thesaurus words for "hyperborean":
     Siberian, algid, antarctic, antipodean, arctic, austral,
     back of beyond, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak,
     boreal, brisk, brumal, cold, cold as charity, cold as death,
     cold as ice, cold as marble, crisp, cutting, east, eastbound,
     easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, freezing,
     freezing cold, frigid, gelid, glacial, godforsaken, hibernal,
     hiemal, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inaccessible,
     inclement, keen, meridional, nipping, nippy, north, northbound,
     northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northerly, northern,
     northernmost, northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, numbing,
     occidental, oriental, out of reach, out-of-the-way, penetrating,
     piercing, pinching, raw, rigorous, severe, sharp, sleety, slushy,
     snappy, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern,
     southerly, southern, southernmost, southwest, southwesterly,
     southwestern, stone-cold, subzero, supercooled, unapproachable,
     ungetatable, untouchable, west, westbound, westerly, western,
     westernmost, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry