[ hɛ'spɪərɪən ]
■ adjective
1》 Greek Mythology of or concerning the Hesperides, a group of nymphs who guarded the garden of golden apples at the western extremity of the earth.
2》 literary western.
Origin
C15: from L. hesperius (from Gk hesperios , from Hesperia 'land of the west', from hesperos (see Hesperus )) + -an .