Olympian

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  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