OLYMPIAN


Meaning of OLYMPIAN in English

I. adjective

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The college principal was an Olympian figure whom we hardly ever saw.

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Eliza Grierson was known as a gossip of Olympian standards.

Kate Robinson and former Olympian Peter Breen, fourth last year, look to squeeze on to the podium.

The Olympian deities themselves no longer dominated public consciousness as they had done for centuries past.

The main objects of religion, however, the Olympian Pantheon, separated themselves from nature.

The Titanic terror, then, precedes the Olympian joy.

The writers have a long way to go to scale these Olympian heights of absurdity, but they're trying.

II. noun

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former U.S. Olympian Pablo Morales

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And anyone who knows VanDerveer knows that these Olympians have been pushed.

Her spot on the 1996 team is a good reason to remember some forgotten Olympians.

Several other potential Olympians will compete.

The Olympians were moved by her words.

The Olympians were reluctant to try to free him by force.

They could never have created the Olympians, each a distinct, vivid personality.

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