Definitions
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- noun One of a race of people in Greek mythology living in the extreme
north , beyond the north wind. - noun Any person living in a northern country, or to the north.
- adjective Pertaining to the extreme north of the earth, or (usually jocular) to a specific northern country or area.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Trees come and go, the hyperborean wields saw and chain, and drags away the remains.
saltminer's archive I James Claffey 2011
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But the Northland's hyperborean laugh was not yet ended.
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Moreover, there was the seclusion of the island, and the sense - from this almost hyperborean perspective - of Edinburgh and London being distant, southern cities, veritable tropical hotbeds of steamy licentiousness.
Jura Duty 2007
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A gentle smile, decorous as the presence required, passed over the assembly, at a feat which, though by no means wonderful in a hyperborean, seemed prodigious in the estimation of the moderate Greeks.
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I will break my natural 23rd street northern boundary and trek up to the hyperborean wilds of the greater Lincoln Center area with you.
Augieland 2008
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Never is this pretty variety of woman to be seen in the hyperborean regions of the Rue
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I will break my natural 23rd street northern boundary and trek up to the hyperborean wilds of the greater Lincoln Center area with you.
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I will break my natural 23rd street northern boundary and trek up to the hyperborean wilds of the greater Lincoln Center area with you.
Augieland: 2007
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Abaris, priest of the hyperborean Apollo, who it is pretended was contemporary with Pythagoras, was still more famous for his rod.
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Never is this pretty variety of woman to be seen in the hyperborean regions of the Rue
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