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hyperborean

[hahy-per-bawr-ee-uhn, -bohr-, -buh-ree-] / ˌhaɪ pərˈbɔr i ən, -ˈboʊr-, -bəˈri- /


ADJECTIVE
northern
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Photograph: Apic/Getty In Barry Lopez's haunting, poetic book about the hyperborean realms, Arctic Dreams, there's a magnificent story about an Inuit family who are washed out to the seas on a calved iceberg.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2013

According to his mellow descriptions, the equator has a decided advantage over these dull, temperate, hyperborean regions.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various

Every few moments the beams of the house snapped like the timbers of a straining ship, and at intervals the frozen ground cracked with a noise like cannon,—the hyperborean earthquake.

From The Cold Snap 1898 by Bellamy, Edward

The light hung over the hyperborean landscape as if loath to leave.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various

Humanism shed a few bright beams on the hyperborean regions of Dundee and Glasgow.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved




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