Olympian

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or relating to Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece; or the Greek gods and goddesses who were believed to live there.
• Resembling a Greek deity in some way.
• Of or relating to the town of Olympia in Elis, Greece; Olympic.

Noun

• 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.
• A person with superior talents or towering achievements.
• An inhabitant of the city of Olympia, the capital of Washington, United States.

Origin

• As regards noun sense 1 (“inhabitant of the city of Olympia, Washington, United States”), the city was named after the Olympic Mountains which are visible to the northwest, which in turn were named after Mount Olympus in Greece.