Crossword clues for olympian
olympian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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.
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.
2. An inhabitant of Olympia.
3. An athlete who competes in the Olympics.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"of or belonging to Olympus," c.1600; see Olympic + -ian. The noun meaning "a great god of ancient Greece" is attested from 1843, from Late Latin Olympianus, from Greek Olympios "pertaining to Olympus;" sense of "one who competes in the (modern) Olympic Games" is from 1976.
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Olympian or Olympians may refer to:
The Olympian is the name of two fictional characters in DC Comics.
The Olympian was an automobile built in Pontiac, Michigan, USA, by the Olympian Motors Company from 1917 to 1921. Two Olympian models were built, a touring car called the Tourist and a four-seat roadster called the Gypsy. They came equipped with a four-cylinder engine. Both models sold for $695.
Olympian is the 1995 debut album by British rock band Gene, released March 20, 1995 under Costermonger Records.
The album reached number 8 in the UK albums chart, selling 70,000 copies and gaining a silver disc.
It is frequently recognized as one of the crowning achievements of Britpop.
The album sound is noted for being influenced by The Smiths, The Jam & The Small Faces. Aesthetically, the album cover reminds of The Smiths' sleeves.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic said of the album: "While Gene manages to carve out an identity indebted to the Smiths but not dominated by them, they also fail to produce an album of consistently compelling material - considering that it's a debut album, that's not a fatal flaw. And Gene's best material shows they are capable of transcending their influences."
The image used for the cover is a still from Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal.
Usage examples of "olympian".
It simply signifies the ascent of the soul after death into the Olympian halls instead of descending into the Acheronian gulfs.
The Olympians, virtually stripped to the skin of their fish-battered garments, had distributed themselves clubbily about the lounge and were thirstily watching Mr Betts as he diligently mixed cocktails.
They have sailed out of the world coinhabited by ordinary men and Olympian gods into a strange demimonde of half-divine monsters.
He signalized his youth by deeds of valor, and displayed a matchless dexterity, as well as strength, in every martial exercise, and even in the less honorable contests of the Olympian games.
Olympians erected a small, remote laboratory in Melas Dorsa, using some of their own money and a bit of land donated by Klein BM.
Or was he simply, cravenly, hoping that the Giants would allow him to survive, when all the other Olympians had been wiped out?
Olympian deities in the days of the Emperors,--and the exceedingly rich and beautiful new forms of capitals, of a design quite unknown to Vitruvius, which the genius of Romanesque artists has invented, we find that our chief interest is derived from the mosaics with which these churches were once so lavishly adorned.
Chang, disguised as a Pallas, along with Yua made subservient to her by Obie, approached Olympus in an Olympian ship after transferring from a commercial freighter.
Then the hugest view of the extent of the universal sphere was that an iron mass would require nine days and nights to plunge from its Olympian height to its Tartarean depth.
Pony Express, which earned a place in human history far surpassing the importance of its accomplishments in its eleven-month lifetime, so did the cult of the Olympians receive an amount of publicity totally out of proportion to its achievements during its brief, twenty-two month existence.
The grass of fifty Aprils hath waved green Above the spent heart, the Olympian head, The hands crost idly, the shut eyes unseen, Unseeing, the locked lips whose song hath fled.
A combination of aphrodisiacs designed for the Olympian body had brought Mavra and Yua to exactly the correct physical and emotional state.
A combination of aphrodisiacs designed for the Olympian body had brought Mavra and Yua to exactly the correct physical and emotional state.
The older generation of dandies who sat in Olympian aloofness in the Bow window at White’.
The serenity of Goethe, the calm, Olympian attitude, is nothing more than the drowsy stupor of a German burgeois deity.