hyperborean🔊

(Greek mythology) One of a race of people living in the extreme north, beyond the north wind.

(usually humorous) Any person living in a northern country, or to the north.

Pertaining to the extreme north of the earth; or (usually humorous) to a specific northern country or area.

💬 Quotations

You could have knelt down, damn it, Kinch, when your dying mother asked you, Buck Mulligan said. I’m hyperborean as much as you. But to think of your mother begging you with her last breath to kneel down and pray for her. And you refused.

James Joyce, Ulysses

As when enclosing harpooners assail / In Hyperborean seas the slumb’ring whale, / Soon as their javelins pierce his scaly side, / He groans, he darts impetuous down the tide;

William Falconer, The Shipwreck

Amongst the fish that the Nautilus frightened as it passed, I will cite the metre-long cyclopteroid with a black back and orange stomach, providing an example of conjugal fidelity rarely followed by its congeners, a huge Forsskal's stingray, a sort of emerald moray eel which has a excellent taste, big-eyed carracks whose heads resemble dogs', blennies viviparous like snakes, 20-centimetre frillgobies or black gudgeons, and Macrura with long tails and shining with a silvery glitter: quick fish that had ventured far from hyperborean seas.

Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

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