Hesperides en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /hɛˈspɛɹɪdiːz/
Etymology
From Latin Hesperides, from Ancient Greek Ἑσπερίδες (Hesperídes).
Meanings
- (Greek, plural, plural-only) 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.
- (Greek, plural, plural-only) The garden of the Hesperides.
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(figuratively, plural, plural-only) A paradisaical land of plenty, especially one in the far West.
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; […]
1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, →OCLC, page 2:
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Translations (10)
grc Ἑσπερίδες (a group of nymphs) · it Esperidi (a group of nymphs) · ru Геспери́ды (a group of nymphs) · hy Հեսպերիդներ (a group of nymphs) · eo Hesperidoj (a group of nymphs) · de Hesperiden (a group of nymphs) · fr Hespérides (a group of nymphs) · la Hesperides (a group of nymphs) · el Εσπερίδες (a group of nymphs) · es Hespérides (a group of nymphs)