Cimmerian

[ si-meer-ee-uhn ]

/ sɪˈmɪər i ən /

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adjective

Classical Mythology. of, relating to, or suggestive of a northern people believed to dwell in perpetual darkness.

very dark; gloomy: deep, Cimmerian caverns.

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Origin of Cimmerian

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

OTHER WORDS FROM Cimmerian

Cim·me·ri·an·ism, noun

Words nearby Cimmerian

cimelia, cimeliarch, Ciment Fondu, cimetidine, cimex, Cimmerian, Cimon, C. in C., cinch, cinch belt, cinchona

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How to use Cimmerian in a sentence

Anciently the Magnetes were utterly extirpated by Treres, a Cimmerian tribe, who for a long period made successful inroads.
The Geography of Strabo, Volume III (of 3)|Strabo
The sunny English noon had swallowed him as completely as if he had gone out into Cimmerian night.
Tales Of Men And Ghosts|Edith Wharton
We feel in these dark Cimmerian limits his wrestle to pass over to the supersensible by thought.
Homer's Odyssey|Denton J. Snider
As applied to Cimmerian sea the epithet dead was applicable.
Opuscula|Robert Gordon Latham

That in the term Morimarusa we are in possession of a gloss at once Cimmerian and Slavonic.
Opuscula|Robert Gordon Latham

British Dictionary definitions for Cimmerian

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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