hesperidian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to the Hesperides or the garden that they tended.
Example Sentences
- "He considered, also, that a rather more general distribution of the Hesperidian fruit, if it could be peaceably effected, would be desirable."
- "The Hesperidian tree bearing golden apples was a type of that in Eden."
- "The body of the poem is the "Song of the Three Sisters," the Hesperidian maidens, which is introduced by a blank verse prologue that fuses historical allusion with myth and somewhat casually places the verses that follow in the familiar framework of vision poetry."
- "It is known concerning Hercules, that he performed his last labour in the Hesperidian region, and Olympiodorus, in his Commentary on the Gorgias of Plato, informs us what we are to understand by this."
- "The evidence seems to indicate that the symbolism of the Hesperidian Garden had a special meaning for the Medici Popes."
- "Further substantiation for this correlation is to be found in Ridgely Torrence's Hesperidian poetry, to which Frost referred in an epigraph to "A Passing Glimpse.""
Etymology
From Hesperides + -ian.