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hyperborean


1. Of or pertaining to the region beyond the North wind, or to its inhabitants.

2. 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))

3. One of the people who lived beyond the North wind, in a land of perpetual sunshine.

See: boreas.

Origin: L. Hyperboreus, Gr.; over, beyond.