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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Olympian \O*lym"pi*an\ ([-o]*l[i^]m"p[i^]*an), adjective [L. See 1st {Olympian}, noun] Pertaining to, characteristic of, or fitting for one of the gods on Olympus; grand, majestic, or aloof. [PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Olympian \O*lym"pi*an\ ([-o]*l[i^]m"p[i^]*an), Olympic \O*lym"pic\ ([-o]*l[i^]m"p[i^]k), adjective [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Olympian \O*lym"pi*an\ ([-o]*l[i^]m"p[i^]*an), prop. n. [L. See 1st {Olympian}, adjective] A god who dwells on Olympus. [PJC]
2. An inhabitant of Olympia. [PJC]
3. An athlete who competes in the Olympics. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Olympian
adjective
1: of the region of Olympia in Greece or its inhabitants; "Olympian plain" [syn: {Olympic}]
2: of or pertaining to the greater gods of ancient Greece whose abode was Mount Olympus; "Olympian deities"
3: majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters; "his majestic presence"; "olympian detachment"; "olympian beauty and serene composure" [syn: {majestic}]
4: far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents" [syn: {exceeding}, {exceptional}, {prodigious}, {surpassing}]
noun
1: an athlete who participates in the Olympic games
2: a classical Greek god after the overthrow of the Titans [syn: {Olympic god}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
149 Moby Thesaurus words for "Olympian": Elysian, Laodicean, above all that, aerial, airy, aloof, altitudinous, apathetic, ascending, aspiring, backward, bashful, beatific, beatified, benumbed, blah, blank, blase, blessed, candid, celestial, chilled, chilly, cold, colossal, comatose, constrained, cool, desensitized, detached, discreet, disinterested, dispassionate, distant, dominating, dull, elevated, eminent, ethereal, exalted, exclusive, expressionless, extramundane, extraterrestrial, forbidding, frigid, from on high, frosty, glorified, guarded, haughty, heartless, heavenly, hebetudinous, high, high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, hopeless, icy, impartial, impassive, impersonal, in a stupor, in glory, inaccessible, indifferent, insouciant, introverted, languid, lethargic, listless, lofty, modest, monumental, mounting, neutral, nonchalant, numb, numbed, offish, otherworldly, outtopping, overlooking, overtopping, paradisaic, paradisal, paradisiac, paradisic, passive, phlegmatic, pluckless, prominent, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, resigned, restrained, reticent, retiring, seclusive, selfless, shrinking, slack, sluggish, soaring, soporific, spiring, spiritless, spunkless, standoff, standoffish, steep, stoic, stupefied, subdued, sublime, superlative, supernal, supine, suppressed, topless, toplofty, topping, torpid, towering, towery, transcendental, transmundane, unaffable, unapproachable, unbiased, uncaring, unconcerned, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unearthly, unexpansive, ungenial, uninfluenced, uninterested, unselfish, unswayed, unworldly, uplifted, upreared, withdrawn
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
OLYMPIAN, adjective 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
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