Crossword clues for hyperborean
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hyperborean \Hy`per*bo"re*an\, a. [L. hyperboreus, Gr. ?; "ype`r over, beyond + ?. See Boreas.]
(Greek Myth.) Of or pertaining to the region beyond the North wind, or to its inhabitants.
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Northern; belonging to, or inhabiting, a region in very far north; most northern; hence, very cold; fright, as, a hyperborean coast or atmosphere.
The hyperborean or frozen sea.
--C. Butler (1633).
Hyperborean \Hy`per*bo"re*an\, n.
(Greek Myth.) One of the people who lived beyond the North wind, in a land of perpetual sunshine.
An inhabitant of the most northern regions.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Late Latin hyperboreanus, from Latin hyperboreus, from Greek hyperboreos "pertaining to the regions of the far north," from hyper (see hyper-) + Boreas (see boreal). The Hyperboreans were an imagined Arctic people believed by the ancients to be distinguished by piety and happiness. Middle English had iperborie "the far north of the Earth" (mid-15c.).
Wiktionary
a. Pertaining to the extreme north of the earth, or ''(usually jocular)'' to a specific northern country or area. n. 1 One of a race of people in Greek mythology living in the extreme north, beyond the north wind. 2 (context usually humorous English) Any person living in a northern country, or to the north.
Usage examples of "hyperborean".
The lone ship now incoming had been a total surprise to everyone on the base when it was detected about an hour ago by the early warning net of robot pickets that englobed the entire Hyperborean system.
How convenient it would be to simply order Silver to remain aboard his ship for the next few hours, keeping him out of the way-but such a course would certainly alert anyone to the fact that something out of the ordinary was taking place on the Hyperborean base.
Commander Normandy moved a finger, causing the location of the Hyperborean system to light up in the form of a tiny green dot.
Adjutant Sadie had been listening in, and now a graphic version of her head, reduced in size, appeared to assure the commander that if Harry Silver had indeed been using the standard charts and autopilot programs, it was quite likely they would have brought him to the Hyperborean system.
The strongest source of natural illumination within four or five light-years was the Hyperborean primary, a small, white sun.
Harry that it had not been triggered by the mere fact of the Hyperborean sky being suddenly full of spacecraft and debris-instead, the immediate cause of alarm was most likely some item of news brought by the people whose ships were piling in on the field in such disorder.
Something, somewhere in the Hyperborean solar system, had automatically triggered a base alert.
What it amounted to was a terse query: Had anybody in the Hyperborean system seen the fugitive Harry Silver?
That was thousands of light-years from the sector containing the Hyperborean system.
Of course a real chance to get away, clean out of the Hyperborean system, would be too much to expect.
All his effort was now focused on getting control of a real ship, some capable conveyance that would carry him away from the Hyperborean system, and its prisons and its battles, to some remote world, preferably at the other end of the Solarian domain, where no one had ever heard of Christopher Havot.
One of the frequent Hyperborean sunsets came over the scene as he was looking at it, both the big white and the brown dwarf below the horizon now, leavingthe wash of light from distant galaxies and stars to serve as background for the flares of battle.
Commander Normandy, by this time somewhat groggy from lack of sleep, was distracted and stimulated by the news that a large, strong human fleet had just come roaring into the Hyperborean system.
Luckily, the range safety officer had a hyperborean charm primed and froze it before it bit somebody.
They might have been mounds to mark where the dead lay in some hyperborean graveyard.