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Boreas

American  
[bawr-ee-uhs, bohr-] / ˈbɔr i əs, ˈboʊr- /

noun

  1. the ancient Greek personification of the north wind.


Boreas British  
/ ˈbɔːrɪəs /

noun

  1. Greek myth the god personifying the north wind

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Boreas

C14: via Latin from Greek


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Last year, Vattenfall won one of these contracts to build the Norfolk Boreas wind farm at a joint record-low strike price of £37.35 per megawatt hour.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2023

That name was Hyperborea: the region beyond the kingdom of Boreas, god of the north wind.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 17, 2017

The focus now is on the 20,500-acre Boreas Ponds tract, purchased by the state last month.

From Washington Times ● May 7, 2016

The other analyst, Lewis Boreas Fan, was sanctioned for trying to arrange investment banking business from Chinese companies he covered.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2012

“Alas, beautiful girl. We all are working for Gaea now. I fear these orders are from our father, Boreas himself.”

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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