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Cimmerian
[ si-meer-ee-uhn ]
adjective
- Classical Mythology. of, relating to, or suggestive of a northern people believed to dwell in perpetual darkness.
- very dark; gloomy:
deep, Cimmerian caverns.
Cimmerian
/ sɪˈmɪərɪən /
adjective
- sometimes not capital very dark; gloomy
noun
- Greek myth one of a people who lived in a land of darkness at the edge of the world
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- Cim·meri·an·ism noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Cimmerian1
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Example Sentences
Anciently the Magnetes were utterly extirpated by Treres, a Cimmerian tribe, who for a long period made successful inroads.
The sunny English noon had swallowed him as completely as if he had gone out into Cimmerian night.
We feel in these dark Cimmerian limits his wrestle to pass over to the supersensible by thought.
As applied to Cimmerian sea the epithet dead was applicable.
That in the term Morimarusa we are in possession of a gloss at once Cimmerian and Slavonic.
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