Cimmerian
Americanadjective
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Classical Mythology. of, relating to, or suggestive of a northern people believed to dwell in perpetual darkness.
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very dark; gloomy.
deep, Cimmerian caverns.
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
- Cimmerianism noun
Etymology
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
Example Sentences
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Before he even had time to yell, he dropped like a rock into the Cimmerian bowels of the glacier.
From Literature
Who can forget the endless close-ups of the feuding husband and wife in Ingmar Bergman's Cimmerian masterpiece Scenes from a Marriage?
From Scientific American
Schwarzenegger is almost as much of a self-made man as the great Cimmerian himself.
From The Guardian
But his path still lay westward; the home of the dead ancestors lay beyond the western boundary; there was still an Oceanus to be crossed, and a dark Cimmerian land to be passed through.
From Project Gutenberg
Of or pertaining to the Thracian or the Cimmerian Bosporus.
From Project Gutenberg
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