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Definition of Olympian
1. Adjective. Of the region of Olympia in Greece or its inhabitants. "Olympian plain"
2. Noun. An athlete who participates in the Olympic games.
3. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the greater gods of ancient Greece whose abode was Mount Olympus. "Olympian deities"
4. Noun. A classical Greek god after the overthrow of the Titans.
5. Adjective. Majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters. "Olympian beauty and serene composure"
6. Adjective. Far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree. "The young Mozart's prodigious talents"
Similar to: Extraordinary
Derivative terms: Exception
Definition of Olympian
1. a. Of or pertaining to Olympus, a mountain of Thessaly, fabled as the seat of the gods, or to Olympia, a small plain in Elis.
Definition of Olympian
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the Greek gods. ¹
2. Adjective. (figuratively) Of heroic or godlike proportions ¹
3. Adjective. Of or relating to Olympia or Mount Olympus. ¹
4. Adjective. Of or relating the Olympic Games. ¹
5. Noun. (mythology) Any of the 12 principal gods of the Greek pantheon; Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Demeter, and Hades. ¹
6. Noun. Someone from Olympia. ¹
7. Noun. (sports) An athlete competing in the Olympics (qualifier chiefly US). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Olympian
Literary usage of Olympian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"THE olympian GAMES In this season of turbulence and returning barbarism, Iphitus,
a descendant, probably grandson, of Oxylus (though so deficient were the ..."
2. Archaeologia Graeca: Or, The Antiquities of Greece by John Potter, George Dunbar (1818)
"Of the Olympic Games, THE olympian games were so called from olympian Jupiter,
to whom they were dedicated, or from Olympia, a city in the territory of the ..."
3. The Book of American Pastimes: Containing a History of the Principal Base by Charles A. Peverelly (1866)
"olympian, 35 and 63; total, 98, with seven wickets to fall; Philadelphia, 63 and 36;
... olympian, 58 and 111 ; total, 169, with eight wickets to fall; ..."
4. A History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B by George Finlay (1877)
"drove the olympian ... the lawless soldiery did not quit Skiathos until they had
consumed everything on which they could lay their hands. While the olympian ..."
5. Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age by William Ewart Gladstone (1858)
"Although we have found it difficult in one or two cases to pronounce with respect
to certain divine personages, whether they are olympian or not, ..."
6. Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion by Jane Ellen Harrison (1903)
"holy oracular snake that Apollo slew, the intrusion is hard to bear. The triumph
of the olympian order is still more clearly presented in the design in fig. ..."
7. The Iliad of Homer, with an Interlinear Translation: With an Interlinear by Homer (1888)
"... immortals having olympian abodes no-longer dcli- o<-ên фра- berate {¡apart (in
... olympian ..."
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