hyperborean
Pertaining to the extreme north of the earth; or (usually humorous) to a specific northern country or area.
Adjective
- Pertaining to the extreme north of the earth; or (usually humorous) to a specific northern country or area.
- The hyperborean or frozen sea. - 1633, C. Butler, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- Hovv, by the fineſt art, the native robe / To vveave; hovv, vvhite as hyperborean ſnovv, / To form the lucid lavvn; […] - 1730, James Thomson, “Autumn. Inscribed to the Right Honourable Arthur Onslow, Esq; Speaker of...
- You could have knelt down, damn it, Kinch, when your dying mother asked you, Buck Mulligan said. I’m hyperborean as much as you. But to think of your mother begging you with her last breath to kneel down and pray for...
Origin
From Late Latin hyperboreanus, cognate with Classical Latin hyperboreus, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβόρεος (huperbóreos), composed of ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + βόρειος (bóreios, “northern”). By surface analysis, nearly hyper- + boreal. See also Ὑπερβόρεοι (Huperbóreoi).
Forms
Noun
- One of a race of people living in the extreme north, beyond the north wind.
- The Hyperboreans venerated Apollo over the other gods.
- Any person living in a northern country, or to the north.