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Olympian

[ uh-lim-pee-uhn, oh-lim- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

pertaining to Mount Olympus or dwelling thereon, as the gods of classical Greece.
pertaining to Olympia in Elis.
of, resembling, characteristic of, or suitable to the gods of Olympus; majestic or aloof:
an Olympian landscape; an Olympian disdain.

Olympian

/ əˈlɪmpɪən /

1585–95; < Late Latin Olympiānus, equivalent to Latin Olympi ( us ) (< Greek Olýmpios, derivative of Ólympos Olympus ) + -ānus -an

Olympian Kevin Jackson later accused du Pont of firing him from Team Foxcatcher for being black.

The double amputee Olympian is charged with the 2013 shooting death of his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp.

But her immediate response to being unable to compete—“Am I still an Olympian?”

If he does, he will be the most decorated Winter Olympian of all time.

Olympian Daley received a deluge of goodwill messages after announcing he was in a gay relationship last December.

Directors were to us junior clerks, remote personalities, mythical beings dwelling on Olympian heights.

And lo, this Olympian being, this unfathomable man, descended from his cloud-capped heights and held out his hand to Tchaikovsky.

Apollo, the next great personage of the Olympian divinities, was more respectable morally than his father.

These were the twelve Olympian divinities, or greater gods; but they represent only a small part of the Grecian Pantheon.

Aunt Maria's Olympian head nodded, and her cheerful face, glowing with tea and the camp fires, confessed "Certainly!"

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