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/oʊˈɫɪmpiən/
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ADJECTIVE
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majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters
his majestic presence
olympian beauty and serene composure
olympian detachment -
far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
the young Mozart's prodigious talents
a night of exceeding darkness
olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy
an exceptional memory
How To Use olympian In A Sentence
- The temple of the +Olympian Zeus+ at Athens (Fig. 39), a mighty dipteral Corinthian edifice measuring 354 by 171 feet, standing on a vast terrace or temenos surrounded by a buttressed wall, was begun by Antiochus Epiphanes (170 B.C.) on the site of an earlier unfinished A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
- The importance of being an Olympian will vary from athlete to athlete.
- The three brothers became the blacksmiths of the Olympian gods, creating Zeus' thunderbolts, Poseidon's trident.
- In effect, her job was simply to be Dawn Fraser, be inspiring to all those young Olympians who had grown up venerating her name.
- But this isn't some random apothegm; it is a dramatic thought, provoked by the life situation of the main character and attributed to him; it certainly is not an Olympian idea delivered from on high. Martin Amis's 'The Pregnant Widow' Is A 'Strange, Sparkling Novel' (New York Review)
- The three-time Olympian reached the final of the keirin but finished last. Times, Sunday Times
- That is, the Olympian Zeus 'ban on human creativity: which shows Zeus's intended bestialization of all mortal human individuals, by forbidding, not only the use, but the discovery of any universal physical principle, such as "fire," or, today, nuclear-fission power. LaRouche's Latest
- He should have consented to know but the grand personal adventure on the grand personal basis: nothing short of this, no poor cognisance of confusable, pettifogging things, the sphere of earth-grubbing questions and two-penny issues, would begin to be, on any side, Olympian enough. The Finer Grain
- The study of 39 athletes included former Olympians. Times, Sunday Times
- Olympian is privileged to work a little longer by the light of the useful "tolly," Caesar and Jonathan would talk freely of past, present, and future. The Hill A Romance of Friendship