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/ˌhaɪpɝˈbɔɹiən/
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NOUN
- (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
How To Use Hyperborean In A Sentence
- He is cast or casts himself on a pyre, but is miraculously saved by Apollo and translated to the land of the Hyperboreans.
- The Scythians and the Hyperboreans (sometimes the Aethiopians) were the noble savages of the Ancients.
- The streets are quite chilled, inside my head is brisk at best and the beat, well, the beat is positively hyperborean.
- Trees come and go, the hyperborean wields saw and chain, and drags away the remains. Saltminer's archive I
- But the Northland's hyperborean laugh was not yet ended. The Gold Hunters of the North
- The last point of the ‘northern twist of the axis’ of which the griffins are said to be the ‘figure’ is the Hyperborean paradise.
- Never is this pretty variety of woman to be seen in the hyperborean regions of the Rue Another Study of a Woman
- This island is inhabited by the Hyperboreans there is also on the island a magnificent sacred precinct of Apollo.
- One should be cautious about the thesis that the name Thule is a serious and conscious reference to a Nordic, Polar connection, in the effort to make a connection with the Hyperborean origins of the Indo-Germans -- since Thule appears in ancient tradition as the sacred center or sacred island in the uttermost North. WAR OF PERCEPTION
- Its grid plan, zoned districts and splendid Nevsky Prospect created a strange kind of hyperborean vertigo in those who contemplated it.