OLYMPIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Olympic mean? 

• OLYMPIC (adjective)
  The adjective OLYMPIC has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to the Olympic Games

2. of the region of Olympia in Greece or its inhabitants

  Familiarity information: OLYMPIC used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLYMPIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the Olympic Games

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Olympic winners

Pertainym:

Olympic Games (the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of the region of Olympia in Greece or its inhabitants

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Olympian; Olympic

Context example:

Olympian plain

Pertainym:

Olympia (a plain in Greece in the northwestern Peloponnese; the chief sanctuary of Zeus and the site of the original Olympian Games)

Derivation:

Olympia (a plain in Greece in the northwestern Peloponnese; the chief sanctuary of Zeus and the site of the original Olympian Games)

 Context examples 

The team included top runners and Olympic champions.

(Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya runs marathon under two hours, Wikinews)

The researchers from Imperial College London in the UK concluded that there could be nearly 12,000 Olympic sized pools of organic matter on Mars that could represent traces of past life.

(Red Planet May Have Harbored Life in Past, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This is not unlike asking an Olympic gymnast to land on Teflon-covered high bars without chalking their hands.

(Researchers study birds to improve how robots land, National Science Foundation)