單詞
hyperborean
英 [,ha?p?b??'ri??n; -'b??r??n]
美
基本信息
- adj. 極北的；嚴(yán)寒的；北極的
- n. 住在極北地區(qū)的人，北國人；極北樂土之民
英文詞源
- hyperborean (adj.)
- 1590s, from Late Latin hyperboreanus, from Latin hyperboreus, from Greek hyperboreos "pertaining to the regions of the far north," from hyper (see hyper-) + Boreas (see boreal). The Hyperboreans were an imagined Arctic people believed by the ancients to be distinguished by piety and happiness. Middle English had iperborie "the far north of the Earth" (mid-15c.).
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