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1. (n.) Thule
a settlement in NW Greenland: site of U.S. air base. 749.
2. (adj.) Thule
of or designating an Eskimo culture flourishing from a .d . 500 to 1400, and extending throughout the Arctic from Greenland to Alaska.
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1. (noun) Thule
a town in northwestern Greenland; during World War II a United States naval base was built there
2. (noun) Thule, ultima Thule
the geographical region believed by ancient geographers to be the northernmost land in the inhabited world
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1. (noun) Thule
the name given by ancient geographers to the northernmost part of the habitable world. According to some, this land was Norway, according to others, Iceland, or more probably Mainland, the largest of the Shetland islands; hence, the Latin phrase ultima Thule, farthest Thule
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