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词汇 Cimmerian
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Definition of Cimmerian in English:

Cimmerian

noun sɪˈmɪərɪən
  • 1A member of an ancient nomadic people who overran Asia Minor in the 7th century BC.

    辛梅里安人的(古代游牧民族,于公元前7世纪大量出没于小亚细亚地区)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The first identifiable groups to populate what is now Ukraine were Cimmerians, Scythians, Sarmatians, and Goths, among other nomadic peoples who arrived throughout the first millennium B.C.
    • Finally, when I got to the mission where the Vikings and Cimmerians were to join forces, the game couldn't load the mission without crashing.
  • 2Greek Mythology
    A member of a mythical people living in perpetual mist and darkness near the land of the dead.

    〔希腊神话〕(神话中永居于地府附近黑暗潮湿地带的)辛梅里安人的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There the people dwell, Of the Cimmerians, in eternal cloud And darkness.
    • His eyes adjusted to the now familiar gloom of the Cimmerian's headquarters.
adjective sɪˈmɪərɪən
  • 1Relating to the ancient Cimmerians.

    the tombs of the Cimmerian kings
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Like other blocks of the Cimmerian continent, the Baoshan block rifted from Gondwanaland.
    • Throughout this interval the Indo-China, Sibumasu and Cimmerian mini-continents lay just to the south/west of South China and were slowly amalgamating with that block.
    • The Cimmerian islands, the present Turkey, Iran and Tibet, broke completely free of the Australian craton and moved rapidly to the north.
    • Cimmeria begins its collision with Laurasia to form the Cimmerian orogeny.
    • A full Jurassic succession is rarely preserved in the southern North Sea Basin because of erosion associated with the late Cimmerian unconformity.
  • 2Relating to or characteristic of the mythical Cimmerians or the perpetual mist and darkness in which they lived.

    〔希腊神话〕(神话中永居于地府附近黑暗潮湿地带的)辛梅里安人的

    a dense fog shrouded the lonely mountain in Cimmerian darkness

Origin

Via Latin from Greek Kimmerios + -an.

Rhymes

Algerian, Cancerian, Chaucerian, criterion, Hesperian, Hitlerian, Hyperion, Iberian, Liberian, Nigerian, Presbyterian, Shakespearean, Siberian, Spenserian, Sumerian, valerian, Wagnerian, Zairean

Definition of Cimmerian in US English:

Cimmerian

noun
  • 1A member of an ancient nomadic people who overran Asia Minor in the 7th century BC.

    辛梅里安人的(古代游牧民族,于公元前7世纪大量出没于小亚细亚地区)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The first identifiable groups to populate what is now Ukraine were Cimmerians, Scythians, Sarmatians, and Goths, among other nomadic peoples who arrived throughout the first millennium B.C.
    • Finally, when I got to the mission where the Vikings and Cimmerians were to join forces, the game couldn't load the mission without crashing.
  • 2Greek Mythology
    A member of a mythical people living in perpetual mist and darkness near the land of the dead.

    〔希腊神话〕(神话中永居于地府附近黑暗潮湿地带的)辛梅里安人的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There the people dwell, Of the Cimmerians, in eternal cloud And darkness.
    • His eyes adjusted to the now familiar gloom of the Cimmerian's headquarters.
adjective
  • 1Relating to the ancient Cimmerians.

    the tombs of the Cimmerian kings
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Cimmeria begins its collision with Laurasia to form the Cimmerian orogeny.
    • The Cimmerian islands, the present Turkey, Iran and Tibet, broke completely free of the Australian craton and moved rapidly to the north.
    • A full Jurassic succession is rarely preserved in the southern North Sea Basin because of erosion associated with the late Cimmerian unconformity.
    • Like other blocks of the Cimmerian continent, the Baoshan block rifted from Gondwanaland.
    • Throughout this interval the Indo-China, Sibumasu and Cimmerian mini-continents lay just to the south/west of South China and were slowly amalgamating with that block.
  • 2Relating to or characteristic of the mythical Cimmerians or the perpetual mist and darkness in which they lived.

    〔希腊神话〕(神话中永居于地府附近黑暗潮湿地带的)辛梅里安人的

    a dense fog shrouded the lonely mountain in Cimmerian darkness

Origin

Via Latin from Greek Kimmerios + -an.

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