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Cimmerian

[ si-meer-ee-uhn ]

adjective

  1. Classical Mythology. of, relating to, or suggestive of a northern people believed to dwell in perpetual darkness.
  2. very dark; gloomy:

    deep, Cimmerian caverns.



Cimmerian

/ sɪˈmɪərɪən /

adjective

  1. sometimes not capital very dark; gloomy


noun

  1. Greek myth one of a people who lived in a land of darkness at the edge of the world

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Other Words From

  • Cim·meri·an·ism noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Cimmerian1

First recorded in 1580–1600; from the Latin plural noun Cimmeriī, from the Greek plural noun Kimmérioi, a mythical people mentioned in book 11 of the Odyssey as living at the edge of Oceanus, the stream that surrounds the earth, in a city wrapped in mist and fog, where the sun never shines, near the entrance to Hades

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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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