Definitions for Thule

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Thule Thu·le

Spelling: [thoo-lee for 1, 2; too-lee for 3]

IPA: /ˈθu li for 1, 2; ˈtu li for 3/

Thule is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in Thule (ehltu).

Definitions for Thule

noun

1. the ancient Greek and Latin name for an island or region variously identified as one of the Shetland Islands, Iceland, or Norway: supposed to be the most northerly region of the world.
2. ultima Thule.
3. a settlement in NW Greenland: site of U.S. air base.
4. (italics) Latin. the highest degree attainable.
5. the farthest point; the limit of any journey.
6. the point believed by the ancients to be farthest north.

adjective

1. of or relating to an Eskimo culture flourishing from a.d. 500–1400, and extending throughout the Arctic from Greenland to Alaska.

Origin of Thule

named after Thule, Greenland

Examples for Thule

Yonder boy,” said she, pointing to little Thule, “has saved me.

For all the words are in Horace, except Thule, which might have been there.

While the period of Thule is 8.8 years, the period of Medusa is 3·1 years.

But English will mean fame in ultima Thule; the isles of the sea, as the Bible says.

He had heard of Thule, the little woodcutter who was called so brave and generous and true.

And he was followed by his brother Aordus and two hundred youths of the Eruli in Thule.

I am glad to get somebody decent to talk to, or at, in this outlandish ultima Thule.

Here they planted the alder; and Thule brought water, and moistened the roots.

But Thule was quite as happy as if the hut had been a palace.

Then Thule kissed his mother, and trudged off to the forest as usual.