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plural hyperboreans
(Greek mythology, usually capitalised) 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. examples
comparative more hyperborean, superlative most hyperborean
Pertaining to the extreme north of the earth, or (usually jocular) to a specific northern country or area. quotations examples
The hyperborean or frozen sea.
1633, C. Butler, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
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.
1922, James Joyce, Ulysses