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Hyperborean   /hˌaɪpərbˈɔriən/   Listen
Hyperborean

noun
1.
(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.





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"Hyperborean" Quotes from Famous Books



... not a more poetic expression than 'Hyperborean,' i. e. [Greek: hyperboreos]—beyond Boreas; or, as a modern poet ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... of the north wind, which chilled the people of Hellas (Greece). Their country was inaccessible by land or sea. They lived exempt from disease or old age, from toils and warfare. Moore has given us the "Song of a Hyperborean," beginning ...
— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch
... These Hyperborean people clothe themselves in skins, know nothing of pottery, and hardly anything of metals. Dependent for existence upon the produce of the chase, the seal and the whale are to them what the cocoa-nut tree and the ...
— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley


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