Hesperides Definition

hĕ-spĕrĭ-dēz
hesperid
noun
The nymphs who guard the golden apples given as a wedding gift by Gaea to Hera.
Webster's New World
The garden where the apples grow.
Webster's New World
A garden, situated at the western end of the earth, in which golden apples grow.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
  • Atlantides
pronoun

(Greek mythology) A group of nymphs who tend a blissful garden 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; the nymphs are said to be the daughters of Hesperus.

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Origin of Hesperides

  • Greek from pl. of hesperis feminine of hesperios of the evening, western Hesperian

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin Hesperides, from Ancient Greek Ἑσπερίδες (Hesperides).

    From Wiktionary

Hesperides Sentence Examples

  • The Hesperides are, like the Sirens, possessed of the gift of delightful song.

  • The "Argo" was now carried twelve days and twelve nights to the Hesperides, and thence to lake Tritonis (where the seer Mopsus died), whence Triton conducted them to the Mediterranean.

  • In 1874 a statue of Commodus was dug up at Rome, in which he is represented as Hercules - a lion's skin on his head, a club in his right and the apples of the Hesperides in his left hand.

  • Bringing the golden apples from the garden of the Hesperides.

  • The golden apples, the gift of Aphrodite to Hippomenes before his race with Atalanta, were also plucked from the garden of the Hesperides.

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