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Definition of Thule
1. Noun. A town in northwestern Greenland; during World War II a United States naval base was built there.
2. Noun. The geographical region believed by ancient geographers to be the northernmost land in the inhabited world.
Generic synonyms: Geographic Area, Geographic Region, Geographical Area, Geographical Region
Definition of Thule
1. n. The name given by ancient geographers to the northernmost part of the habitable world. According to some, this land was Norway, according to others, Iceland, or more probably Mainland, the largest of the Shetland islands; hence, the Latin phrase ultima Thule, farthest Thule.
Definition of Thule
1. Proper noun. the ancestors of the Canadian Inuit ¹
2. Proper noun. the northernmost location of the ancient world ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Thule
1. The name given by ancient geographers to the northernmost part of the habitable world. According to some, this land was Norway, according to others, Iceland, or more probably Mainland, the largest of the Shetland islands; hence, the Latin phrase ultima Thule, farthest Thule. Origin: L. Thule, Thyle, Gr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thule
Literary usage of Thule
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans from the Earliest by Edward Herbert Bunbury (1883)
"In another passage Strabo refers to him as having placed thule, which he calls "
the most northern of the British Islands," in a latitude where ..."
2. The Discovery of America by the Northmen, in the Tenth Century, with Notices by North Ludlow Beamish (1841)
"Therefore think learned men that it is Iceland which is called thule, ... Pol.
t The locality of thule is still a vexata questio with Antiquaries, ..."
3. Permafrost: North American Contribution [to The] Second International by Building Research Advisory Board Staff, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) (1973)
"PERFORMANCE OF THE thule HANGAR SOIL COOLING SYSTEMS Wayne Tobiasson US ARMY ...
The 10 hangars at thule are among the largest heated structures built on ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"A rumor respecting thule, an island on the Arctic Circle, first brought by
PYTHEAS (qv). and In the spring of 1556 Stephen Burrough, who had served with ..."
5. The Discovery of America by the Northmen: In the Tenth Century by North Ludlow Beamish, Carl Christian Rafn (1841)
"Therefore think learned men that it is Iceland which is called thule, ...
Bede speaks of thule according to the relation of Pytheas of Marseilles, Solinus, ..."
6. Origins of English History by Charles Isaac Elton (1882)
"Stories of thule —Of the Germans and the Hercynian Forest.—Stories about Britain.
... The communism of thule.—The King of the Hebrides—His legend. ..."
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