Hesperian

See also: hesperian

English 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], […], →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

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