Boreas

(European mythology)

The name given by the Greeks to the north wind. Although wind gods were worshipped by both the Greeks and the Romans, Boreas had a special place in mythology because of his aid in damaging the Persian fleet at the battle of Artemisium in 480 BC.

1. Greek Mythology. The god of the north wind.
2. boreas The north wind.

[Middle English, from Latin Boreās, from Greek, from boreios, coming from the north.]

Boreas, in Greek, the north wind (Lat. aquilo); in Greek myth, son of the Titan Astraios (‘starry one’) and Eōs (‘dawn’). His native land was said to be Thrace. He carried off as wife the nymph Oreithyia, daughter of Erechtheus, an early king of Athens, and was thus thought by the Athenians to be specially connected with them. They instituted a state cult for him after he destroyed the Persian fleet at Cape Sepias in 480 BC (see WINDS). He was the father of Zētēs and Calǎis, mentioned among the Argonauts.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: (Greek mythology) the god who personified the north wind