thule
IPA: θˈuɫ
Root Word: Thule
noun
- The semi-legendary island of classical antiquity considered to represent the northernmost location in the inhabited world (the Ecumene).
- (historical) A nationalist and occultist group in Germany in the early 20th century, which included some of the founding members of the Nazi Party.
- The historical Eskimo culture extending from Alaska to Greenland between the 6th and 14th centuries.
- A settlement and airbase in northwestern Greenland established in 1910 by the Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen.
- The smaller lobe of the trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule, a contact binary object.
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Examples of "thule" in Sentences
- It will make you as cold as Ultima Thule.
- Possibly from a Thule dialect variant of.
- My view on Thule isn't enormously important.
- Thule is not the only occult group out there.
- The Thule Society and the origins of the NSDAP.
- The Argentinians set up a military base on Thule.
- The ship took part in as to recapture Thule Island.
- The ship took part in the recapture of Thule Island.
- It is in effect the only safe anchorage on Southern Thule.
- The Thule Society had been an offshoot of the Germanenorden.
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