Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for hyperborean. Search instead for hyperurban.
Definitions

hyperborean

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


ADJECTIVE
northern
Synonyms
Antonyms




Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

In the remotest North, so far away it was at the back of the North Wind, was a blissful land where the Hyperboreans lived.

From Literature

A Hyperborean wouldn’t be scared senseless up here, or worried about getting down.

From New York Times

Clarisse must’ve lost a fight with a Hyperborean giant, because she and her chariot were frozen in a block of ice.

From Literature

“Neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed / in their sacred blood,” the poet Pindar wrote of the Hyperboreans in the fifth century B.C.

From The New Yorker

Hyperborean giants kept appearing in the strangest places.

From Literature