Definition of Boreas

1. Noun. A wind that blows from the north.

Exact synonyms: North Wind, Norther, Northerly
Specialized synonyms: Bise, Bize, Mistral, Tramontana, Tramontane
Generic synonyms: Air Current, Current Of Air, Wind
Derivative terms: Boreal, Northerly

2. Noun. (Greek mythology) the god who personified the north wind. "Boreas was pictured as bearded and powerful and winged and draped against the cold"
Category relationships: Greek Mythology
Generic synonyms: Greek Deity

Definition of Boreas

1. n. The north wind; -- usually a personification.

Definition of Boreas

1. Proper noun. (Greek god) The god of the North Wind. ¹

2. Proper noun. (poetic) the north wind personified ¹

3. Noun. (obsolete poetic) The north wind. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Boreas

1. the north wind [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Boreas

Bordeau theory
Bordeaux
Bordeaux mixture
Bordeaux wine
Border Collie
Border collie
Border terrier
Bordet-Gengou bacillus
Bordet-Gengou phenomenon
Bordet-Gengou potato blood agar
Bordet and Gengou reaction
Bordetella parapertussis
Bordetella pertussis
Bordon
Bordwellian
Boreas
Borel function
Borel measurable
Borel measure
Borel set
Borg
Borged
Borges
Borgesian
Borgesian libraries
Borgesian library
Borgia
Borgian
Borging
Borgs

Literary usage of Boreas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"The character which boreas, the north wind, exhibits in Attic myth ... Homer tells us that Achilles besought boreas and Zephyros to fan the flames of ..."

2. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"The character which boreas, the north wind, exhibits in Attic myth holds good ... Homer tells us that Achilles besought boreas and Zephyros to fan the ..."

3. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"The character which boreas, the north wind, exhibits in Attic myth holds good ... Homer tells us that Achilles besought boreas and Zephyros to fan the ..."

4. Herodotus by Herodotus (1840)
"They afterwards erected a shrine to boreas on the banks of the Ilissus. ... Some have taken boreas for a wind, others for a prince of Thrace. ..."

5. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"boreas, 28 Ye bloods of the present day ! To you I have nothing to say, Except ye are able To splice a chain cable Or get a sheer hulk under way. ..."

6. Poems by Laura Coster Strong (1908)
"boreas With roar of joy and whistle shrill, Old boreas comes down the hill. ... I remonstrate : "Oh, boreas, What means this play uproarious? ..."

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