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say it: hahy-pur-BAW-ree-uhn
hyperborean is a noun meaning "(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". It is pronounced /ˌhaɪpɚˈbɔɹiən/ — hahy-pur-BAW-ree-uhn. It carries one recorded sense.
(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
Greek mythology
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hyperborean come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.