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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



... celebrate great events—the Trojan war, the founding of Rome, the loss of Paradise—and bring before us a large number of heroes, divinities, and angels. The "Iliad" is made up chiefly of battle scenes, in which mighty heroes and Olympian deities take part. AEneas is the hero of the "AEneid"; but back of the tribulations through which he passes, we recognize the agency of contending divinities. And in "Paradise Lost" Milton introduces the mighty beings of heaven and hell. The ...
— Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism • F. V. N. Painter
... reply gives the least hint that condescension had been displayed. He is wholly unruffled, distant, objective. There is also a quiet tone of finality, almost the tone one might use in gently but firmly correcting a child. The Olympian impertinence of the Thoughts had struck out of Lincoln the first flash of that approaching masterfulness by means of which he was to ride out successfully such furious storms. Seward was too much the man of the ...
— Lincoln • Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
... monsieur," said Mousqueton, smiling. "Thursday, Olympian pleasures. Ah, monsieur, that is superb! We get together all monseigneur's young vassals, and we make them throw the disc, wrestle, and run races. Monseigneur can't run now, no more can I; but monseigneur throws the ...
— Ten Years Later - Chapters 1-104 • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... might fail and call down upon them the implacable and destructive forces that could ruin them body and soul forever. For this, plainly expressed, was the form in which his terror attacked him when he thought about it. Skale was tempting the Olympian powers to crush him. ...
— The Human Chord • Algernon Blackwood
... Charge past them like lightning. The Irish mare gave a rush and got alongside of him; the King would have done the same, but Cecil checked him and kept him in that cool, swinging canter which covered the grassland so lightly; Bay Regent's vast thundering stride was Olympian, but Jimmy Delmar saw his worst foe in the "Guards' Crack," and waited on ...
— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]


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