Boreas

noun

Bo·​re·​as ˈbȯr-ē-əs 

1

: the Greek god of the north wind

2

: the north wind personified

Examples of Boreas in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Boreas Pass Tour is one of my favorites, especially on full moon nights when the lights of Breckenridge twinkle below as seen from an overlook near the trailhead. —John Meyer, The Denver Post, 13 Mar. 2025

The King Boreas Grande Day Parade will proceed down Grand Avenue; a couple days of ice skating will be hosted at Springboard for the Arts up in Frogtown; and more cold-weather fun will take place at parks from Crosby Farm to Battle Creek. —Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2025

What's new: The King Boreas Grande Day Parade, scheduled for Jan. 25, is moving to Grand Avenue this year. —Torey Van Oot, Axios, 7 Jan. 2025

Only a few more days are left to enter your pups into the St. Paul Union Depot’s Doggie Depot contest, where the St. Paul Winter Carnival’s Canine King Boreas and Canine Queen of Snows are crowned. —Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 5 Jan. 2025

Known as the Meltemi, these winds have occupied an outsize place in the Tinian psyche since antiquity, when a myth arose to explain them: Hercules, angry at Boreas for killing his friend, took revenge on the god of the north wind by killing Boreas’s children on Tinos. —Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2024

Berners in the Park, an event celebrating Bernese Mountain Dogs, will be presented on Saturday, Feb. 3, at Rice Park in downtown St. Paul by the 2019 King Boreas, Monte Johnson, and the 2019 Lady Boreas, Mary Johnson, in memory of their dog, Murphy. —Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2024

In 1619, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei named this phenomenon aurora borealis after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek god of the north wind, Boreas. —Debbie Olsen, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2023

Word History

Etymology

Latin, from Greek

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2