Hesperian
See also: hesperian
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Hesperian (comparative more Hesperian, superlative most Hesperian)
- Of or relating to the land where the sun sets; western
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 630-632:
- the parting Sun/ Beyond the Earth’s green Cape and verdant Isles/ Hesperian sets
- Of or relating to the Hesperides nymphs
- of or relating to the Martian geological period between Noachian and Amazonian
Proper noun
[edit]Hesperian
- An inhabitant of the western lands
- 1807, Joel Barlow, The Columbiad:
- Our wild Hesperians humanize at last
- The Hesperian geological time period of Mars