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English
Etymology
From Latin Hesperius + -ian.
Adjective
Hesperian (comparative more Hesperian, superlative most Hesperian)
- Of or relating to the land where the sun sets; western
1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. , London: ">…] , and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 630-632:the parting Sun/ Beyond the Earth’s green Cape and verdant Isles/ Hesperian sets
- Of or relating to the Hesperides nymphs
- of or relating to the Martian geological period between Noachian and Amazonian
Proper noun
Hesperian
- An inhabitant of the western lands
1807, Joel Barlow, The Columbiad:Our wild Hesperians humanize at last
- The Hesperian geological time period of Mars
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