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Wiktionary

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

Etymologies

  1. Late Latin hyperboreanus, cognate with classical Latin hyperboreus; the Greek word was Ύπερβορεος, i.e. ύπερ + βορειος ‘northern’. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “But the Northland's hyperborean laugh was not yet ended.”

    The Gold Hunters of the North

  • “Trees come and go, the hyperborean wields saw and chain, and drags away the remains.”

    Fictionaut: saltminer's archive I

  • “Moreover, there was the seclusion of the island, and the sense - from this almost hyperborean perspective - of Edinburgh and London being distant, southern cities, veritable tropical hotbeds of steamy licentiousness.”

    Jura Duty

  • “A gentle smile, decorous as the presence required, passed over the assembly, at a feat which, though by no means wonderful in a hyperborean, seemed prodigious in the estimation of the moderate Greeks.”

    Count Robert of Paris

  • “I will break my natural 23rd street northern boundary and trek up to the hyperborean wilds of the greater Lincoln Center area with you.”

    Augieland

  • “Abaris, priest of the hyperborean Apollo, who it is pretended was contemporary with Pythagoras, was still more famous for his rod.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary

  • “Never is this pretty variety of woman to be seen in the hyperborean regions of the Rue”

    Another Study of a Woman

  • “After this exercise, he blew a hyperborean whistle, as if to blow his wrath away.”

    The Virginians

  • “Rice grows in the valleys, but there is not much cultivation, and the country looks rough, cold, and hyperborean.”

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

  • “Ascending in the hyperborean conditions, I skinned on alpine-touring gear until the grade became too steep for my ski skins to hold on to the slope.”

    Simon & Schuster: 127 Hours

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  1. northern

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  1. mythical being

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  1. Hyperborean
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