thule
/ˈtuːliː/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.60 in modern English
Meaning
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The semi-legendary island of classical antiquity considered to represent the northernmost location in the inhabited world (the Ecumene).
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A nationalist and occultist group in Germany in the early 20th century, which included some of the founding members of the Nazi Party.
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The historical Eskimo culture extending from Alaska to Greenland between the 6th and 14th centuries.
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A settlement in northwestern Greenland established in 1910 by the Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen.
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A locality in the Murray River council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.
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The smaller lobe of the trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule, a contact binary object.
Example Sentences
- "I have reached these lands but newly // From an ultimate dim Thule."
- "For distant India tremble may // Beneath your mighty rule, // And Thulé⁵ bow beneath your sway // Far in the Northern sea, // But if to care and want you’re prey, // No king are you, but slave."
- "5. To the Romans Thulé, variously identified as Iceland or Mainland in the Shetland Isles, marked the extreme northern limit of the known world, just as India here stands for the farthest east."
- "For the purposes of discussion, MU₆₉’s larger and smaller lobes have been informally designated “Ultima” and “Thule,” respectively, by the New Horizons team. Ultima and Thule have best-fit measured diameters of ~19.5 and ~14.2km, respectively, with errors of only a few percent at this time."
- "Ultima and Thule have similar colors with measured albedos ∼0.06, indicating that UT is a typical member of the Cold Classical Kuiper Belt class of objects."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Thūlē, Θούλη, Tīle, Thȳle
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtuːliː/
- British English: /ˈθjuːliː/