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Definition of Hyperborean
1. Noun. (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.
Definition of Hyperborean
1. a. Of or pertaining to the region beyond the North wind, or to its inhabitants.
2. n. One of the people who lived beyond the North wind, in a land of perpetual sunshine.
Definition of Hyperborean
1. Noun. One of a race of people in Greek mythology living in the extreme north, beyond the north wind. ¹
2. Noun. (context: usually humorous) Any person living in a northern country, or to the north. ¹
3. Adjective. Pertaining to the extreme north of the earth, or ''(usually jocular)'' to a specific northern country or area. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hyperborean
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Hyperborean
1. 1. Of or pertaining to the region beyond the North wind, or to its inhabitants. 2. Northern; belonging to, or inhabiting, a region in very far north; most northern; hence, very cold; fright, as, a hyperborean coast or atmosphere. "The hyperborean or frozen sea." (C. Butler (1633)) 3. One of the people who lived beyond the North wind, in a land of perpetual sunshine. See: boreas. Origin: L. Hyperboreus, Gr.; over, beyond. (04 Mar 1998)
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Literary usage of Hyperborean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and by William Tooke, William Beloe, Robert Nares (1798)
"The hyperborean in return ... of the word hyperborean, feem to have ... the fage
was by nation an hyperborean, appeared a Grecian in ..."
2. The Cults of the Greek States by Lewis Richard Farnell (1907)
"We find then that the route led from and through countries that might properly
be called * hyperborean.' It led from Macedon, where the presumable existence ..."
3. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1917)
"The " hyperborean " will be the name chosen for the Second Continent, the land
which stretched out its promontories southward and westward from the North ..."
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