Olympic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ὀλυμπικός (Olumpikós), from Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos, “Olympus”).
Inflected forms:
form: Olympics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Olympic Games.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Olympic torch
Olympic champion
Olympic medal
Olympic qualifiers
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Olympic Games.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Olympic swimming pool
I have heard it said that the young Chamber of Commerce have put on their future programme the project of building an Olympic swimming pool.
A neighbouring training regiment built an Olympic running track in their camp because the already great runner National Serviceman 2nd Lieutenant (later the Honorable Sir) Christopher Chattaway had been posted there.
gloss: Very large or powerful.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: Sid's stomach was practicing gagging motions for an eruption of absolutely Olympic proportions with his cheeks puffing quickly in and out to the beat.
That bed was Olympic, and held some of Julia's best-worst memories.
gloss: Of or pertaining to Olympus, a mountain of Thessaly, fabled as the seat of the gods.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
rare
gloss: Detached or liberated from petty concerns; godlike.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
rare
examples: According to the late Dr. Otis T. Mason, who was my informant on this subject, he left as a memory of his visit a reputation for mental detachment that was Olympic in its character.
The little paper contained none of the customary lampoons on Bloods and Masters. It was Olympic in its aloofness from school politics.
This is the talk of an Olympic man, experiencing cosmic liberation. He enjoys life, first, as the very act of living, pure, immanent life as such-and thus enjoys his own self as a concrete and this-worldly being.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the ancient city of Olympia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
rare
gloss: Five consecutive ducks.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Related words: Olympionic
Derived words: Deaflympic
Olympically
Olympic breakfast
Olympic diving
olympicene
Olympic flame
Olympic Games
Olympic goal
Olympic Peninsula
Olympic Rings
Olympic torch
Olympic torchbearer
Olympic Valley
Olympic village
Olympism
Olyroos
Paralympian
Paralympic
Sydney Olympic Park
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: Olimpies
lang: Arabic
word: أُولِمْبِيّ
roman: ʔulimbiyy
lang: Armenian
word: օլիմպիական
roman: ōlimpiakan
lang: Bulgarian
word: олимпийски
roman: olimpijski
lang: Catalan
word: olímpic
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 奧林匹克 /奥林匹克
roman: àolínpǐkè
lang: Czech
word: olympijský
lang: Danish
word: olympisk
lang: Dutch
word: olympisch
lang: Dutch
word: olympische
lang: Esperanto
word: olimpia
lang: Finnish
word: olympialainen
lang: Finnish
word: olympia-
lang: French
word: olympique
lang: German
word: olympisch
lang: Hebrew
word: אוֹלִימְפִּי
roman: olimpí
lang: Hungarian
word: olimpiai
lang: Irish
word: Oilimpeach
lang: Italian
word: olimpico
lang: Japanese
word: オリンピック
roman: orimpikku
lang: Japanese
word: 五輪
roman: gorin
lang: Khmer
word: អូឡាំពិក
roman: ʼoulampɨk
lang: Korean
word: 올림픽
roman: ollimpik
lang: Macedonian
word: олимпиец
roman: olimpiec
lang: Macedonian
word: олимпијка
roman: olimpijka
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: olympisk
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: OL
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: olympiske leker
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: olympisk
lang: Polish
word: olimpijski
lang: Portuguese
word: olímpico
lang: Romanian
word: olimpic
lang: Russian
word: олимпи́йский
roman: olimpíjskij
lang: Sicilian
word: alìmpicu
lang: Slovak
word: olympijský
lang: Spanish
word: olímpico
lang: Swedish
word: olympisk
lang: Turkish
word: olimpik
lang: Ukrainian
word: олімпі́йський
roman: olimpíjsʹkyj
lang: Welsh
word: Olympaidd