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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the west.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Western; situated at the west.
- Of or pertaining to the Hesperides.
- [lowercase] Of or pertaining to the hesperians; having the characters of the family Hesperiidæ.
- noun An inhabitant of a western country.
- noun [I. c.] A lepidopterous insect of the family Hesperiidæ; a skipper. See
Castnioides . Alsohesperid .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Poetic Western; being in the west; occidental.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to a family of butterflies called
Hesperidæ , or skippers. - noun Poetic A native or an inhabitant of a western country.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of or relating to the land where the
sun sets ;western - adjective of or relating to the Hesperides
nymphs - adjective of or relating to the Hesperidae family of
butterflies - adjective of or relating to the
Martian geological period betweenNoachian andAmazonian - noun an inhabitant of the western lands
- noun a
butterfly of the family Hesperidae; a Skipper - noun the Hesperian geological time period of
Mars
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective denoting or characteristic of countries of Europe and the western hemisphere
Etymologies
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Examples
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[Footnote 20: W.D. Gallagher, "Hesperian," Vol. II., p 89.]
Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer Cecil B. Hartley
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I repeated for the fifth time the Lord's Prayer -- perhaps some of you old fellows don't repeat it enough in your homes now, but you get out on the "Hesperian" when she is sinking and you will say it over more than once.
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I could tell you another little story of something that happened on the "Hesperian" on the way back to Canada, when after being torpedoed in the night time, and her nose opening towards the bottom of the Atlantic, we were all in turmoil and trouble; I with my crutches, weak, four days out of the hospital bed, down in my bunk.
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Sept. 4 -- Allan liner "Hesperian" sunk by German submarine; 26 lives lost, 1 American.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Kelly Miller 1901
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( "Hesperian"), the manager of a strategically focused group of public mutual funds and limited partnerships (the Norrep Group of Funds), announced that Norrep Performance 2006 Flow-Through Limited Partnership has chosen to participate in the one for one conversion of warrants to Class A shares of Nexstar Energy Ltd. ( "the Company").
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( "Hesperian"), the Manager of a strategically focused group of public mutual funds and limited partnerships (the "Norrep Group of Funds"), announced today that it has declared a dividend of
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Police arrived at the scene at 15555 Hesperian Boulevard at around 1:50 a.m. and found a man had been shot, and his family members had detained a suspect, who police identified Friday afternoon as Tony Phillips of Oakland.
Black Friday Shooting: Shopper Shot At San Leandro Walmart During Attempted Robbery The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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In that scenario the clay-to-sulfate formation transition is captured along the Noachian-Hesperian boundary, as measured by cratering rates in and around Gale crater.
Multi-Layer Mars Parfait Provides Environmental Record | Universe Today 2010
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I assume the Hesperian epoch would remain, as it is "marked by the formation of extensive lava plains" and the Noachian is defined ? by "many large impact craters" Wikipedia.
New Images Suggest More Recent Lakes on Mars | Universe Today 2010
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Scientists had largely overlooked the Hesperian Epoch as it was thought that Mars was then a frozen wasteland.
New Images Suggest More Recent Lakes on Mars | Universe Today 2010
alexz commented on the word Hesperian
3 billion to 3.8 billion years ago when Mars was in transition from a wet planet Noachian to the current cold and dry planet Amazonian
March 26, 2018