Olympian – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Olympian
adj.
suitable or typical of the Greek gods in action or attitude, celestial, superior, arrogant; from or pertaining to the area around Mount Olympus; of or pertaining to the ancient Greek city Olympia
n.
resident of Olympia; Olympian god; one who competes in the Olympic Games
Olympian
Olympian or
Olympians may refer to:
Sport
- A participant in the Olympic Games
- SoCal Olympians, an organization of the United States Olympic team
- London Olympians, a British amateur American football team based in Beckenham, London
- Beijing Olympians, a Chinese professional men's basketball team
- Indianapolis Olympians, a National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA from 1949 to 1953
- Olympian Swim Club (Canadian swim team), an Edmonton, Alberta based swim club
- World Olympians Association, an association of former Olympic athletes from all over the world
- Wenlock Olympian Society, an organisation begun in 1850 by William Penny Brookes to hold the annual Wenlock Olympian Games in Shropshire, England
Olympian
Noun
1. an athlete who participates in the Olympic games
(hypernym) athlete, jock
2. a classical Greek god after the overthrow of the Titans
(synonym) Olympic god
(hypernym) Greek deity
Adjective
1. of the region of Olympia in Greece or its inhabitants; "Olympian plain"
(synonym) Olympic
(pertainym) Olympia
2. of or pertaining to the greater gods of ancient Greece whose abode was Mount Olympus; "Olympian deities"
(pertainym) Olympus, Mount Olympus, Mt. Olympus, Olimbos
olympian
Adjective
1. majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters; "his majestic presence"; "olympian detachment"; "olympian beauty and serene composure"
(synonym) majestic
(similar) superior
2. 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"
(synonym) exceeding, exceptional, prodigious, surpassing
(similar) extraordinary
Olympian
(a.)
Alt. of Olympic
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Olympian
Synonyms and related words:
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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
