Definition of Olimpian
{ O*lym"pic, or O*lym"pi*an, games }.
A modified revival of the ancient Olympian games, consisting of
international athletic games, races, etc., now held once in four
years, the first having been at Athens in 1896.
{ O*lym"pi*an (-an), O*lym"pic (-
p&ibreve;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.
Olympic games, or Olympics
(Greek Antiq.), the greatest of the national festivals of
the ancient Greeks, consisting of athletic games and races, dedicated
to Olympian Zeus, celebrated once in four years at Olympia, and
continuing five days.
{ O*lym"pic, or O*lym"pi*an, games }.
A modified revival of the ancient Olympian games, consisting of
international athletic games, races, etc., now held once in four
years, the first having been at Athens in 1896.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
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