This week's theme
Words from mythology

This week's words
odyssey
cimmerian
narcissist
atlas
charon

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(si-MIR-ee-uhn)

MEANING:

adjective: Very dark or gloomy.

ETYMOLOGY:

After Cimmerians, a mythical people described in Homer's Odyssey, who lived in perpetual darkness at the entrance of Hades. The historical Cimmerians, who lived in Crimea, were unrelated. Earliest documented use: 1594.

USAGE:

"All along the beach they had travelled on the empty bus, watching as lightning slashed the brooding, Cimmerian sky."
Anita Rau Badami; The Hero's Walk; Algonquin Books; 2001.

See more usage examples of cimmerian in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.

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