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Words from mythology



This week's words

odyssey

cimmerian

narcissist

atlas

charon

Words from mythology A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg



cimmerian PRONUNCIATION: (si-MIR-ee-uhn)

MEANING: adjective: Very dark or gloomy.

ETYMOLOGY: Odyssey, who lived in perpetual darkness at the entrance of After Cimmerians, a mythical people described in Homer's, who lived in perpetual darkness at the entrance of Hades . The historical Cimmerians, who lived in Crimea, were unrelated. Earliest documented use: 1594.

USAGE:

Anita Rau Badami; The Hero's Walk; Algonquin Books; 2001.



See more usage examples of "All along the beach they had travelled on the empty bus, watching as lightning slashed the brooding, Cimmerian sky."Anita Rau Badami;; Algonquin Books; 2001.See more usage examples of cimmerian in Vocabulary.com's dictionary

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. -E.E. Cummings, poet (1894-1962)





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