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Definition of Boreas

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

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"

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

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Bordet and Gengou reaction Bordetella parapertussis Bordetella pertussis Bordon Bordwellian Boreas (current term) Borel function Borel measurable Borel measure Borel set

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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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