Pronounced: ER-ee, noun
Notes: You probably know this word; I included it for the pronunciation
Yesterday’s word
The word cimmerian means “very dark or gloomy”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
Our word came from Homer’s Odyssey; the Cimmerians, who were a mythical people who lived in perpetual darkness at the entrance of Hades. Note: there are also a real people named “Cimmerians” — dwellers in Crimea, but they are unrelated to our word (except, of course, for the spelling being the same).
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