Cimmerian
/sɪˈmɪərɪən
/adjective
Relating to the Cimmerians.A full Jurassic succession is rarely preserved in the southern North Sea Basin because of erosion associated with the late Cimmerian unconformity....
- Like other blocks of the Cimmerian continent, the Baoshan block rifted from Gondwanaland.
- The Cimmerian islands, the present Turkey, Iran and Tibet, broke completely free of the Australian craton and moved rapidly to the north.
noun
1A member of an ancient nomadic people who overran Asia Minor in the 7th century bc.The first identifiable groups to populate what is now Ukraine were Cimmerians, Scythians, Sarmatians, and Goths, among other nomadic peoples who arrived throughout the first millennium B.C....
- Finally, when I got to the mission where the Vikings and Cimmerians were to join forces, the game couldn't load the mission without crashing.
2 Greek Mythology A member of a mythical people living in perpetual mist and darkness near the land of the dead.His eyes adjusted to the now familiar gloom of the Cimmerian's headquarters....
- There the people dwell, Of the Cimmerians, in eternal cloud And darkness.
Origin
Via Latin from Greek Kimmerios + -an.
Rhymes
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- minorization
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- minor planet
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- Minorquin
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- Minos
- Minos, Palace of
- Minot
- Minotaur
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- Minox
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