ultima Thule
Americannoun
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(italics) the highest degree attainable.
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the farthest point; the limit of any journey.
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the point believed by the ancients to be farthest north.
noun
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another name for Thule
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any distant or unknown region
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a remote goal or aim
Etymology
Origin of ultima Thule
First recorded in 1655–65; literally, farthest Thule
Example Sentences
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Thus last February Los Angeles station KNX announced the advent of What's On Your Mind?, the ultima Thule in audience-participation shows.
From Time Magazine Archive
But you make no mention of that almost fabulous will-o'-the-wisp, that ultima Thule of all cribbage players, the "29 hand."
From Time Magazine Archive
From time to time anchorites sought refuge in that ultima Thule, "that they might pray to God in peace"; but whether they did any direct work of conversion is doubtful.
From The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by William Holden Hutton
Old, old, white-haired men, who had lived their lives in this ultima Thule, never remembered a fiercer storm.
From Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures by Gordon Stables
And through all the story there ran the deeper current of his mental struggles till at last he fancied he found the ultima Thule in pure materialism.
From A Gamble with Life by Silas K. (Silas Kitto) Hocking
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