Olympian

Olympian englannista suomeksi

1. olympolainen jumala, olympialainen

2. Olympian

3. olympiaurheilija

1. olympolainen

2. olympialainen

3. olympiaurheilija

Olympian englanniksi

1. olympian

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

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2. (quote-book)|chapter=Annotations upon of Daniel|Daniel|translator=R. G.|title=Pious and Learned Annotations upon the Holy Bible: Plainly Expounding the Most Difficult Places thereof:(nb...)|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=(...) Miles Flesher, for Nicholas Fussell|year=1648|page=611|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=E5JkAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA611|column=2|oclc=913005257|passage=Namely, the Olympian (mythology)|Iove, to whom Antiochus IV Epiphanes|''Antiochus'' ''IV Epiphanes'' conſecrated the Temple of God, 2 Books of the Maccabees|''Mac''''cabees'' 6.2. and ſo he placed him, as it were, in Gods own cittadell, ver. 31. (..) The ſaid Olympian Iove was an Athenian Idoll, and not a Syrian one: which was ''Antiochus'' his native Country.

3. (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)'', by that name / If rightly thou art call'd, whoſe Voice divine / Following, above th' ''Olympian'' Hill I ſoare, / Above the flight of ''Pegaſean'' wing.

4. (RQ:Homer Pope Iliad)

5. (quote-book) John Wilson for John Wood and Ch. Woodward,(nb...)|year=1740|page=170|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=CxRgAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA170|lines=603–606|oclc=1167414640|passage=When the great pow'r that e'en the gods commands, / Who ſends the bolts from his &91;(mythology)|Jupiter's&93; almighty hands, / Summon'd th' immortals, who obey'd his call, / He thus addreſs'd them in th' olympian hall.

6. (RQ:Keats Endymion)

7. (RQ:Eliot Adam Bede) Hetty was quite uneducated—a simple farmer's girl, to whom a gentleman with a white hand was dazzling as an Olympian god.

8. Resembling a Greek deity in some way.

9. Celestial, heavenly; also, godlike.

10. (quote-book)|chapter=Book VI|translator=Cranwell|John Cranwell|title=The Christiad, a Poem in Six Books;(nb...)|location=Cambridge, Cambridgeshire|publisher=(...) J. Archdeacon, printer to the of Cambridge|University of Cambridge; sold by J. Woodyer, and T. & J. Merrill(nb...)|year=1768|page=383|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=5RhOcv1DBoQC&pg=RA5-PA383|oclc=836790430|passage=Behold! your Saviour mounts th' Olympian plain, / In endleſs glories with his Sire to reign.

11. (RQ:Shaw Man and Superman) a certain high chested carriage of the shoulders, a lofty pose of the head, and the Olympian majesty with which a mane, or rather a huge wisp, of hazel colored hair is thrown back from an imposing brow, suggest (mythology)|Jupiter rather than (w).

12. Acting in a remote and superior manner; aloof.

13. (quote-book)

14. 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); ''preceded by'' the: Zeus, the supreme ruler of the Greek deities.

15. (quote-book)|volume=X|location=London|publisher=(...) James Bettenham, for Strahan (publisher)|George Strahan, J. Clarke,(nb...)|year=1741|page=361|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=qmNZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA361|oclc=951659480|passage=(geographer)|Pauſanias's account is related pretty faithfully there, if we except two errors, one, that (w) 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.

16. (RQ:Carlyle Past and Present) longed for gold, and insulted the Olympians. He got gold, so that whatsoever he touched became gold—and he, with his long ears, was little the better for it.

17. 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.

18. A person with superior talents or towering achievements.

19. Of or relating to the town of Olympia in Elis, Greece; Olympic.

21. Of or relating to the ancient Games held at Olympia; Olympic.

22. (quote-book)|chapter=The Life of Alexander the Great|translator=Thomas North|title=Lives|The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, Compared together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chæronea:(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) Field (printer)|Richard Field|year=1612|page=675|pageurl=https://books.google.comg/books?id=_Y1GwlrvS9UC&pg=PA675|oclc=1113266952|passage=For he &91;(w)&93; was not (as his father Philip II of Macedon|''Philip'' ''II of Macedon'') deſirous of all kind of glorie: who like a Rhetoritian had a delight to vtter his eloquence, and ſtamped in his coines, the victories he had wonne at the Olympian games, by the ſwift running of his horſe and coaches. For when he was asked one day (becauſe he was ſwift of foot) whether he would aſſay to run for victorie at the Olympian games: I could be content, ſaid he, ſo I might run with kings.

23. (quote-book)|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=(...) Timothy Childe,(nb...)|year=1705|volume=I|section=book I (Chronology)|page=22|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=84anBAgjugEC&pg=PA22|oclc=505959925|passage=The Olympian Games were celebrated at the Full Moon after the Somer Solſtice, ſo the Olympian Years begin at that Seaſon.

24. (quote-book) A. Bell,(nb...)|year=1720|volume=II|page=126|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=7xPT96m-KAwC&pg=PA126|oclc=225427604|passage=During his Exile he &91;(w)&93; obtain'd the Olympian Prize in the Quadrijugal Chariot-race, and transferr'd the Honour to Miltiades|''Miltiades'' Elder his Mother's Son.

25. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Dodsley|Robert Dodsley(nb...), and sold by M. Cooper(nb...)|year=1743|section=section II (Of Publick Festivals; viz. of the Olympian, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian Games)|page=172|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pb1XAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA172|oclc=1227613744|passage=Q. ''Were Women allow'd to be preſent at thoſe Games?'' / ''A.'' At firſt they were ſo ſtrict in this reſpect, that any Women who croſs'd the River ''Alpheus'' while theſe Games were celebrating, were condemn'd to be tumbled down a Rock. But afterwards, Women were even ſuffer'd to perform in the ''Olympian'' Games, and they ſometimes won the Prizes.

26. Of or relating to the modern Olympic Games; Olympic.

27. An inhabitant of the city of Olympia, the capital of Washington, States.

28. A sportsperson competing in the ancient Games.

29. (RQ:Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida Q1)

30. A sportsperson competing in the modern Olympic Games.

31. (quote-journal) There will be people who were getting the timing right for 2020 who won't be in 2021. From in one year does not guarantee form in the next. That is absolutely heart-breaking. There will be athletes in the community that should have become Olympians. Because of Covid-19, they will never get that opportunity.

32. (quote-journal) Olympians’ mental health has never been a key concern for the sports governing bodies that oversee them.