Hyperborean

a.	1.	(Greek Myth.) Of or pertaining to the region beyond the North wind, or to its inhabitants.
	2.	Northern; belonging to, or inhabiting, a region in very far north; most northern; hence, very cold; fright, as, a hyperborean coast or atmosphere. The hyperborean or frozen sea. - C. Butler (1633).
n.	1.	(Greek Myth.) One of the people who lived beyond the North wind, in a land of perpetual sunshine.
	2.	An inhabitant of the most northern regions.

Noun

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Hyperborean - (Greek mythology) one of a people that the ancient Greeks believed lived in a warm and sunny land north of the source of the north wind

Siberian, algid, antarctic, antipodean, arctic, austral, back of beyond, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, crisp, cutting, east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, gelid, glacial, godforsaken, hibernal, hiemal, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inaccessible, inclement, keen, meridional, nipping, nippy, north, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northerly, northern, northernmost, northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, numbing, occidental, oriental, out of reach, out-of-the-way, penetrating, piercing, pinching, raw, rigorous, severe, sharp, sleety, slushy, snappy, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, southerly, southern, southernmost, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, stone-cold, subzero, supercooled, unapproachable, ungetatable, untouchable, west, westbound, westerly, western, westernmost, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry

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