Hesperides
Meanings
noun
- A group of nymphs who tend a blissful garden filled with trees that grew golden apples 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; they are said to be the daughters of Hesperus.
- The garden of the Hesperides.
- A paradisaical land of plenty, especially one in the far West.
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Etymology
From Latin Hesperides, from Ancient Greek Ἑσπερίδες (Hesperídes).
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