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Cimmerian

[ si-meer-ee-uh n ]

/ sɪˈmɪər i ən /

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adjective

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

very dark; gloomy: deep, Cimmerian caverns.

OTHER WORDS FROM Cimmerian

Cim·me·ri·an·ism, noun

Example sentences from the Web for cimmerian

The heavy teak portal gave way beneath the Cimmerian's assault, and he peered inside warily, expecting anything.

The People of the Black Circle |Robert E. Howard
What to you is clear as the daylight, may to me be as densely impenetrable as the Cimmerian night.

Essays on Scandinavian Literature |Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
Only the iron neck-muscles of the Cimmerian saved him from a broken neck that instant.

Shadows in the Moonlight |Robert E. Howard
This gulf of Cimmerian darkness was called by early navigators the Coal Sack.

The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' |Thomas Orchard

Though brief as any other, that night seemed to her like the Cimmerian nights, six long months of darkness.

King Candaules |Thophile Gautier

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