Meaning

(Greek mythology, usually capitalised) One of a race of people living in the extreme north, beyond the north wind..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Greek mythology, usually capitalised) One of a race of people living in the extreme north, beyond the north wind.
2. (usually humorous) Any person living in a northern country, or to the north.
3. Pertaining to the extreme north of the earth; or (usually humorous) to a specific northern country or area.

Example Sentences

The Hyperboreans venerated Apollo over the other gods.

The hyperborean or frozen sea.

Hovv, by the fineſt art, the native robe / To vveave; hovv, vvhite as hyperborean ſnovv, / To form the lucid lavvn; […]

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 her. And you refused.

Amongst the fish that the Nautilus frightened as it passed, I will cite the metre-long cyclopteroid with a black back and orange stomach, providing an example of conjugal fidelity rarely followed by its congeners, a huge Forsskal's stingray, a sort of emerald moray eel which has a excellent taste, big-eyed carracks whose heads resemble dogs', blennies viviparous like snakes, 20-centimetre frillgobies or black gudgeons, and Macrura with long tails and shining with a silvery glitter: quick fish that had ventured far from hyperborean seas.

Word Forms

• hyperboreans
• Hyperborean
• more hyperborean
• most hyperborean

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When Should You Use Hyperborean?

Use hyperborean when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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