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Hesperian

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Hesperian /hɛˈspɪərɪən/

▶adjective

1 Greek Mythology of or concerning the Hesperides, a group of nymphs who guarded the garden of golden apples at the western extremity of the earth.

2 literary western.

– origin C15: from L. hesperius (from Gk hesperios, from Hesperia ‘land of the west’, from hesperos (see Hesperus)) + -an.

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