English Dictionary

Olympian

IPA（発音記号）

/əˈlɪm.pɪ.ən/

形容詞

比較不可 通常 広義 比較可能

(not comparable) Of or relating to Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece; or (Greek mythology) the Greek gods and goddesses who were believed to live there. / Celestial, heavenly; also, godlike.

日本語の意味

オリュンポス山（ギリシャ最高峰）に関連する、またはギリシャ神話における神々を指す。 / 天体的な、天上の、神のような

The botanist studied the Olympian plants that grow only on the rocky slopes of Mount Olympus.

その植物学者は、オリンポス山の岩だらけの斜面にのみ生育する植物を研究した。

意味（1）

(not comparable) Of or relating to Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece; or (Greek mythology) the Greek gods and goddesses who were believed to live there.

Namely, the Olympian Iove, to whom Antiochus [IV Epiphanes] conſecrated the Temple of God, 2 Mac[cabees] 6.2. and ſo he placed him, as it were, in Gods own cittadell, ver. 31. […] [T]he ſaid Olympian Iove was an Athenian Idoll, and not a Syrian one: which was Antiochus his native Country.

意味（2）

Celestial, heavenly; also, godlike.

Behold! your Saviour mounts th' Olympian plain, / In endleſs glories with his Sire to reign.

意味（3）

Acting in a remote and superior manner; aloof.

The Olympian distance he so carefully cultivated was shot through with genuine exhaustion. Workaholic and overburdened with affairs of state, he had evidently written the letter in snached moments between other matters.

more Olympian （ comparative ）

most Olympian （ superlative ）