Olympian \O*lym"pi*an\ ([-o]*l[i^]m"p[i^]*an), a. [L. See 1st
Olympian, n.]
Pertaining to, characteristic of, or fitting for one of the
gods on Olympus; grand, majestic, or aloof.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Olympian \O*lym"pi*an\ ([-o]*l[i^]m"p[i^]*an), Olympic
\O*lym"pic\ ([-o]*l[i^]m"p[i^]k), a. [L. Olympius, Olympicus,
Gr. 'Oly`mpios, 'Olympiko`s, fr. 'O`lympos: cf. F. olympique.
See Olympiad.]
Of or pertaining to Olympus, a mountain of Thessaly, fabled
as the seat of the gods, or to Olympia, a small plain in
Elis.
[1913 Webster]
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Olympian \O*lym"pi*an\ ([-o]*l[i^]m"p[i^]*an), prop. n. [L. See
1st Olympian, a.]
A god who dwells on Olympus.
[PJC]
2. An inhabitant of Olympia.
[PJC]
3. An athlete who competes in the Olympics.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Olympian
adj 1: of the region of Olympia in Greece or its inhabitants;
"Olympian plain" [syn: Olympic]
2: of or pertaining to the greater gods of ancient Greece whose
abode was Mount Olympus; "Olympian deities"
3: majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters;
"his majestic presence"; "olympian detachment"; "olympian
beauty and serene composure" [syn: majestic]
4: far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of
exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian
efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young
Mozart's prodigious talents" [syn: exceeding, exceptional,
prodigious, surpassing]
n 1: an athlete who participates in the Olympic games
2: a classical Greek god after the overthrow of the Titans
[syn: Olympic god]
WordNet (r) 2.0
149 Moby Thesaurus words for "Olympian":
Elysian, Laodicean, above all that, aerial, airy, aloof,
altitudinous, apathetic, ascending, aspiring, backward, bashful,
beatific, beatified, benumbed, blah, blank, blase, blessed, candid,
celestial, chilled, chilly, cold, colossal, comatose, constrained,
cool, desensitized, detached, discreet, disinterested,
dispassionate, distant, dominating, dull, elevated, eminent,
ethereal, exalted, exclusive, expressionless, extramundane,
extraterrestrial, forbidding, frigid, from on high, frosty,
glorified, guarded, haughty, heartless, heavenly, hebetudinous,
high, high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, hopeless,
icy, impartial, impassive, impersonal, in a stupor, in glory,
inaccessible, indifferent, insouciant, introverted, languid,
lethargic, listless, lofty, modest, monumental, mounting, neutral,
nonchalant, numb, numbed, offish, otherworldly, outtopping,
overlooking, overtopping, paradisaic, paradisal, paradisiac,
paradisic, passive, phlegmatic, pluckless, prominent, remote,
removed, repressed, reserved, resigned, restrained, reticent,
retiring, seclusive, selfless, shrinking, slack, sluggish, soaring,
soporific, spiring, spiritless, spunkless, standoff, standoffish,
steep, stoic, stupefied, subdued, sublime, superlative, supernal,
supine, suppressed, topless, toplofty, topping, torpid, towering,
towery, transcendental, transmundane, unaffable, unapproachable,
unbiased, uncaring, unconcerned, uncongenial, undemonstrative,
unearthly, unexpansive, ungenial, uninfluenced, uninterested,
unselfish, unswayed, unworldly, uplifted, upreared, withdrawn
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
OLYMPIAN, adj. Relating to a mountain in Thessaly, once inhabited by
gods, now a repository of yellowing newspapers, beer bottles and
mutilated sardine cans, attesting the presence of the tourist and his
appetite.
His name the smirking tourist scrawls
Upon Minerva's temple walls,
Where thundered once Olympian Zeus,
And marks his appetite's abuse.
Averil Joop
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
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