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olympian

/uh-lim-pee-uhn, oh-lim-/US // əˈlɪm pi ən, oʊˈlɪm- //UK // (əˈlɪmpɪən) //

奥林匹克人,奥林匹克者,奥林匹克,奥林匹亚人

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to Mount Olympus or dwelling thereon, as the gods of classical Greece.
    • : pertaining to Olympia in Elis.
    • : of, resembling, characteristic of, or suitable to the gods of Olympus; majestic or aloof: an Olympian landscape; an Olympian disdain.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an Olympian deity.
    • : a contender in the Olympic Games.
    • : a native or inhabitant of Olympia.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • After just two minutes with her, I knew that I wanted to become an Olympian.

  • It’s been an era of increased visibility in the media, led by Caitlyn Jenner’s 2015 announcement that the former Olympian was transitioning.

  • People can take your American record away, but never the status of being an Olympian.

  • I think it’s because people who know nothing about running still know what an Olympian is.

  • Tracksmith running experts Nick Willis, a two-time Olympian, and Mary Cain, 3000 meter World Junior Champion.

  • Olympian Kevin Jackson later accused du Pont of firing him from Team Foxcatcher for being black.

  • The double amputee Olympian is charged with the 2013 shooting death of his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp.

  • But her immediate response to being unable to compete—“Am I still an Olympian?”

  • If he does, he will be the most decorated Winter Olympian of all time.

  • Olympian Daley received a deluge of goodwill messages after announcing he was in a gay relationship last December.

  • Directors were to us junior clerks, remote personalities, mythical beings dwelling on Olympian heights.

  • And lo, this Olympian being, this unfathomable man, descended from his cloud-capped heights and held out his hand to Tchaikovsky.

  • Apollo, the next great personage of the Olympian divinities, was more respectable morally than his father.

  • These were the twelve Olympian divinities, or greater gods; but they represent only a small part of the Grecian Pantheon.

  • Aunt Maria's Olympian head nodded, and her cheerful face, glowing with tea and the camp fires, confessed "Certainly!"