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单词 hyperborean
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hyperboreanadj.n.

/hʌɪpəˈbɔːriːən/
Etymology: < late Latin hyperboreānus = classical Latin hyperboreus , < Greek ὑπερβόρεος , -βόρειος (in early writers only in plural Ὑπερβόρεοι , the Hyperboreans), < ὑπερ- hyper- prefix 1a + βόρειος northern, βορέας the north wind, Boreas n. Compare French hyperboréen, hyperborée; the latter is found in the 14th cent.
A. adj.
1.
a. Of, pertaining to, or characterizing the extreme north of the earth, or (colloquial or humorously) of a particular country; in ethnological use, cf. B.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > North > [adjective] > character
northOE
northernc1385
northenc1410
boreal1470
northernly1574
hyperboreal1596
hyperborean1605
northerly1616
boreana1644
Boread1882
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 174 Gray-beard Boreas..Is pris'ned close in the Hyper-Borean Caue.
?1614 W. Drummond Sonnet: The Hyperborean Hills in Poems The Hyperborean Hills.
1633 C. Butler Eng. Gram. To Rdr. sig. *2v In the other Northern Isles, as Groenland, Freesland, Iseland, &c. even to the Hyperborean or frozen Sea.
1740 J. Warton Virg. Georg. iv. 618 The Hyperborean ice he wander'd o'er.
1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) x. §488 This water then may go off as an under current freighted with heat to temper some hyperborean region.
1875 F. Parkman in N. Amer. Rev. CXX. 37 The first, or Hyperborean, group comprises the tribes of Alaska and a part of British America.
1885 Manch. Examiner 12 Jan. 6/1 We are held to dwell..in a hyperborean region, though we are only two hundred miles from London.
b. Of or pertaining to the fabled Hyperboreans.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [adjective] > of fabulous or mythical race of humans
hyperborean1613
Fomorian1793
sciapodous1798
sasquatch1966
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 398 The Hyperborean [nation], which..dwell in an Iland in the Ocean neere unto the Pole.
1806 R. Fellowes tr. J. Milton Second Def. in C. Symmons Prose Wks. John Milton VI. 418 Some hyperborean and fabled hero, decorated with all the shewy varnish of imposture.
2. (nonce-use.) Surpassing that of the north wind.
ΚΠ
1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians lxxix He blew a hyperborean whistle, as if to blow his wrath away.
B. n.
An inhabitant of the extreme north of the earth; in plural members of an ethnological group of Arctic races. loosely and figuratively. One who lives in a northerly clime.In Greek legend the Hyperboreans were a happy people who lived in a land of perpetual sunshine and plenty beyond the north wind.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > inhabitant of imaginary or ideal place
utopian1551
Arcadian1590
hyperborean1601
eutopian1629
Ruritanian1894
the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > fabulous or mythical human > miscellaneous (types of)
walkyrieeOE
woodwosea1100
mugglingc1275
Sciapodes1568
Arimasp1579
acephali1600
hyperborean1601
Arimaspian1667
golem1732
Lorelei1878
menehune1895
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of specific region > [noun] > northern people > person
northerner1283
Septentrion1607
northerling1616
northern1774
northlander1797
hyperborean1816
the world > people > ethnicities > race > Arctic race > [noun]
hyperborean1856
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 121 Certain people..not much vn~ like in their maner of life to the Hyperboreans.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 395 Next to these both in place and credit, we may reckon the Hyperboreans.
1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) II. 138 At six in the morning the yokes of oxen were going to their work a field; and nearly three hours advantage..of active life is possessed [in France] over us Hyperboreans.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. i. 24 Our party of American hyperboreans.

Derivatives

hyperˈboreanism n. an extreme northernism.Apparently an isolated use.
ΚΠ
1824 T. De Quincey Goethe in London Mag. Sept. 298 ‘Hanselling’ and ‘just’ in this use of it [in ‘we must just put up with it’] are both Hyperboreanisms, and still intelligible in some provinces.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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