Olympian

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or relating to Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece; or (Greek mythology) the Greek gods and goddesses who were believed to live there.

   “Namely, the Olympian Iove, to whom Antiochus [IV Epiphanes] conſecrated the Temple of God, 2 Mac[cabees] 6.2. and ſo he placed him, as it were, in Gods own cittadell, ver. 31. […] [T]he ſaid Olympian Iove was an Athenian Idoll, and not a Syrian one: which was Antiochus his native Country.”

2. sıfat Celestial, heavenly; also, godlike.

   “Behold! your Saviour mounts th' Olympian plain, / In endleſs glories with his Sire to reign.”

3. sıfat Acting in a remote and superior manner; aloof.

   “The Olympian distance he so carefully cultivated was shot through with genuine exhaustion. Workaholic and overburdened with affairs of state, he had evidently written the letter in snached moments between other matters.”

4. isim Any of the 12 principal gods and goddesses of the Greek pantheon (Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Demeter, and Hades); (specifically) preceded by the: Zeus, the supreme ruler of the Greek deities.

   “Pauſanias's account is related pretty faithfully there, if we except two errors, one, that Arcas an Olympian mixed ſome Hippomanes with the brazen ſtatue, the other that he caſt a mare. […] We do not find in the author's Latin, that Arcas the Olympian mixed ſome Hippomanes, &c.”

5. isim In the Platonist theology of Plethon, a god in one group of supercelestial gods, the other group of such gods being the Tartareans or Titans.
6. isim A person with superior talents or towering achievements.
7. sıfat Of or relating to the town of Olympia in Elis, Greece; Olympic.
8. sıfat Of or relating to the ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia; Olympic.

   “The Olympian Games were celebrated at the Full Moon after the Somer Solſtice, ſo the Olympian Years begin at that Seaſon.”

9. sıfat Of or relating to the modern Olympic Games; Olympic.
10. isim An inhabitant of the city of Olympia, the capital of Washington, United States.
11. isim A sportsperson competing in the ancient Olympic Games.

    “And I haue ſeene thee pauſe, and take thy breath, / When that a ring of Greekes haue ſhruped thee in, / Like an Olympian wraſtling.”

12. isim A sportsperson competing in the modern Olympic Games.

    “[…] Olympians’ mental health has never been a key concern for the sports governing bodies that oversee them.”