hesperides
/hɛˈspɛɹɪdiːz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.70 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A group of nymphs who tend a blissful garden filled with trees that grew golden apples in a far western corner of the world, located in Libya or the Atlas Mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus; they are said to be the daughters of Hesperus.
noun
The garden of the Hesperides.
noun
A paradisaical land of plenty, especially one in the far West.
Example Sentences
- "Inclinations no leſs vigorous have of late been obſerved in Europe, but with more ſucceſs; who not being bounded by Herculean Bars, paſt ſo far through (till then) the unmeaſured Atlantick, that they lighted upon a new World, a flouriſhing Heſperides, Regions whoſe Sands were Gold, Earth Plate, and Rivers Silver, a Paradice extended to the Arctick and Antarctick Circles, with ſeveral other Countries and Iſlands that reach almoſt the utmoſt latitude of either Poles, out-ſhining all the Fables of Antiquity, and boldeſt Tales of their Poetick Dreams; […]"
Etymology
From Latin Hesperides, from Ancient Greek Ἑσπερίδες (Hesperídes).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Hesperides, Ἑσπερίδες