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Definition of Olympia

1. Noun. Capital of the state of Washington; located in western Washington on Puget Sound.

2. Noun. A plain in Greece in the northwestern Peloponnese; the chief sanctuary of Zeus and the site of the original Olympian Games.

Definition of Olympia

1. Proper noun. An ancient city in Greece, home of the very first Olympic Games, see w:Olympia, Greece ¹

2. Proper noun. The capital city of the US state of Washington, see w:Olympia, Washington. ¹

3. Proper noun. (Ancient Greek female given name); quite rare in English. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Olympia

Ollier Ollier's disease Ollier's method Ollier's theory Ollier-Thiersch graft Ollier graft Olmec Olmecs Olmsted Olomouc

Olorun Olszewski Olsztyn Oltenia Olwen Olympia (current term) Olympiad Olympian Olympian Games Olympianism

Olympians Olympias Olympic Olympic Games Olympic National Park Olympic Peninsula Olympic Rings Olympic Winter Games Olympic diving Olympic goal

Literary usage of Olympia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Greece: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1894)
"Olympia. A VISIT то Olympia, which is not recommended in the oppressive heat of a Greek summer, is most conveniently made by means of the railway from ..."

2. History of the Popes: Their Church and State by Leopold von Ranke, E. Fowler (1901)
"Donna Olympia was a widow when she was married to Pamfili. Paolo Nini, of Viterbo, the last of his race, was her first husband, and as she inherited his ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"But even now the praise seems hardly excessive to a visitor who, looting eastward up the fertile and well-wooded valley of Olympia, sees the snow-crowned ..."

4. Athletics and Mathematics in Archaic Corinth: The Origins of the Greek Stadionby David Gilman Romano by David Gilman Romano (1993)
"The Olympia II Stadium has a rectangular dromos, approximately 26 m. wide, ... It is clear that the Olympia II stadium extended well within the altis (Fig. ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Aristotle saw in the temple of Hera at Olympia a bronze disk, recording the traditional laws of the festival, on which the name of Lycurgus stood next to ..."

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