English Dictionary

Hesperides

IPA（発音記号）

/hɛˈspɛɹɪdiːz/

名詞

ギリシャ語 複数形 複数形のみ 比喩的用法

(Greek mythology) 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.

日本語の意味

ギリシャ神話において、黄金の林檎が実る楽園を管理するニンフたち。彼女たちは、世界の西端（通常、リビアまたは北アフリカのアトラス山脈付近に位置するとされる）にある楽園を保守する役割を果たし、ヘスペルスの娘と伝えられる。

Legendary sailors still spoke in hushed tones of the Hesperides, the nymphs who tended a blissful western garden where golden apples grew.

伝説の船乗りたちは、黄金の林檎が実る西方の恍惚とした庭園を世話するニンフたちのことを、今もひそひそと語り継いでいた。

意味（1）

(Greek mythology) 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.

意味（2）

(Greek mythology) The garden of the Hesperides.

意味（3）

(figuratively) A paradisaical land of plenty, especially one in the far West.

Inclinations no leſs vigorous have of late been obſerved in Europe, but with more ſucceſs; who not being bounded by Herculean Bars, paſt ſo far through (till then) the unmeaſured Atlantick, that they lighted upon a new World, a flouriſhing Heſperides, Regions whoſe Sands were Gold, Earth Plate, and Rivers Silver, a Paradice extended to the Arctick and Antarctick Circles, with ſeveral other Countries and Iſlands that reach almoſt the utmoſt latitude of either Poles, out-ſhining all the Fables of Antiquity, and boldeſt Tales of their Poetick Dreams; […]