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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hyperborean \Hy`per*bo"re*an\, a. [L. hyperboreus Gr ?; "ype`r over beyond + ?. See {Boreas}.] 1. (Greek Myth.) 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). From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hyperborean \Hy`per*bo"re*an\, n. 1. (Greek Myth.) One of the people who lived beyond the North wind, in a land of perpetual sunshine. 2. An inhabitant of the most northern regions.
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