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hyperborean

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Adjective, Noun
 : 
Hy=per=bo=re=an

CIDE DICTIONARY

hyperboreana. [L. hyperboreus, Gr. ; "ype`r over, beyond + . See Boreas.].
  •  Of or pertaining to the region beyond the North wind, or to its inhabitants.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Northern; belonging to, or inhabiting, a region in very far north; most northern; hence, very cold; fright, as, a hyperborean coast or atmosphere.  [1913 Webster]
    "The hyperborean or frozen sea."  [1913 Webster]
hyperboreann. 
  •  One of the people who lived beyond the North wind, in a land of perpetual sunshine.  [1913 Webster]
  •  An inhabitant of the most northern regions.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hyperborean, n. & adj.
--n.
1 an inhabitant of the extreme north of the earth.
2 (Hyperborean) (in Greek mythology) a member of a race worshipping Apollo and living in a land of sunshine and plenty beyond the north wind.
--adj. of the extreme north of the earth.

Etymology
LL hyperboreanus f. L hyperboreus f. Gk huperboreos (as HYPER-, Boreas god of the north wind)

THESAURUS

hyperborean

Siberian, algid, antarctic, antipodean, arctic, austral, back of beyond, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, crisp, cutting, east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, gelid, glacial, godforsaken, hibernal, hiemal, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inaccessible, inclement, keen, meridional, nipping, nippy, north, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northerly, northern, northernmost, northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, numbing, occidental, oriental, out of reach, out-of-the-way, penetrating, piercing, pinching, raw, rigorous, severe, sharp, sleety, slushy, snappy, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, southerly, southern, southernmost, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, stone-cold, subzero, supercooled, unapproachable, ungetatable, untouchable, west, westbound, westerly, western, westernmost, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry

ROGET THESAURUS

hyperborean

Distance

N distance, space, remoteness, farness, far- cry to, longinquity, elongation, offing, background, remote region, removedness, parallax, reach, span, stride, outpost, outskirt, horizon, aphelion, foreign parts, ultima Thule, ne plus ultra, antipodes, long range, giant's stride, dispersion, length, cosmic distance, light-years, distant, far off, far away, remote, telescopic, distal, wide of, stretching to, yon, yonder, ulterior, transmarine, transpontine, transatlantic, transalpine, tramontane, ultramontane, ultramundane, hyperborean, antipodean, inaccessible, out of the way, unapproached, unapproachable, incontiguous, far off, far away, afar, afar off, off, away, a long way off, a great way off, a good way off, wide away, aloof, wide of, clear of, out of the way, out of reach, abroad, yonder, farther, further, beyond, outre mer, over the border, far and wide, over the hills and far away, from pole to pole, to the uttermost parts, to the ends of the earth, out of hearing, nobody knows where, a perte de vue, out of the sphere of, wide of the mark, a far cry to, apart, asunder, wide apart, wide asunder, longo intervallo, at arm's length, distance lends enchantment, it's a long long way to Tipperary, out of sight, out of mind.

Cold

N cold, coldness, frigidity, inclemency, fresco, winter, depth of winter, hard winter, Siberia, Nova Zembla, wind- chill factor, ice, snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift, sleet, hail, hailstone, rime, frost, hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost, barf, glaze, lolly, icicle, thick-ribbed ice, fall of snow, heavy fall, iceberg, icefloe, floe berg, glacier, nev_ee, serac, pruina, freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, chilliness, chill, shivering, goose skin, horripilation, rigor, chattering of teeth, numbness, frostbite, cold, cool, chill, chilly, icy, gelid, frigid, algid, fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching, clay-cold, starved, chilled to the bone, shivering, aguish, transi de froid, frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped, cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas, cool as a cucumber, cool as custard, icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal, hyperborean, hyperboreal, icebound, frozen out, unwarmed, unthawed, lukewarm, tepid, isocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic, frozen, numb, frost-bitten, coldly, bitterly, pierre fendre.


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