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Definition of: Cimmerian
(si·mir′ē·ən) adjective
Densely dark; shrouded in gloom: with reference to the Cim·me·ri·i (si·mir′ē·ī), a mythical people mentioned by Homer as living in perpetual darkness.
—noun
1. One of the mythical Cimmerii.
2. A member of a nomadic tribe of the Crimea which overran Asia Minor in the seventh century B.C.
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