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Olympian   /oʊlˈɪmpiən/   Listen
Olympian

adjective
1.
Of the region of Olympia in Greece or its inhabitants.  Synonym: Olympic.
2.
Of or pertaining to the greater gods of ancient Greece whose abode was Mount Olympus.
3.
Majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters.  Synonym: majestic.  "Olympian detachment" , "Olympian beauty and serene composure"
4.
Far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree.  Synonyms: exceeding, exceptional, prodigious, surpassing.  "An exceptional memory" , "Olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy" , "The young Mozart's prodigious talents"
noun
1.
An athlete who participates in the Olympic games.
2.
A classical Greek god after the overthrow of the Titans.  Synonym: Olympic god.



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"Olympian" Quotes from Famous Books



... day, how much more must it have been so before the invention of printing, at a time when it was more usual to listen to books read aloud than to read them oneself? Plutarch journeyed to Rome just as Herodotus went to Athens, or as he is said to have gone to the Olympian festival, in search of an intelligent audience of educated men. Whether his object was merely praise, or whether he was influenced by ideas of gain, we cannot say. No doubt his lectures were not delivered gratis, and ...
— Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4) • Plutarch
... "yes, why not? Man-making is almost equal to man-bearing. I have no son to spur up the Olympian heights; but what might I not do for ...
— Winding Paths • Gertrude Page
... what wouldst thou say? I who can speak am dumb before thee. Thine eyes that drink Olympian day Where steeds of wings thy soul convey, With pride of eagles circling o'er thee: Thou ...
— Tales of the Chesapeake • George Alfred Townsend
... consecrate By love and reverence of the Olympian sire Whom I too loved and worshipped, seeing so great, And found so gracious toward my long desire To bid that love in song before his gate Sound, and my lute be loyal to his lyre, To none save one it now may dedicate Song's new burnt-offering on a century's pyre. And though the gift be light ...
— Studies in Song • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... them thus, out of the midsummer noonday: so that those things might be felt as warm, and fresh, and blue, by the young and the old, the weak and the strong, who came to sun themselves in the god's presence, as procession and hymn rolled on, in the fragrant and tranquil courts of the great Olympian temple; while all the time those people consciously apprehended in the carved image of Zeus none but the personal, and really ...
— Greek Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater


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