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Olympic

Olympic

3.3
About the sports event where many countries compete every four years
  • adjective
  • /əˈlɪmpɪk/
translation icon : olímpico
  • The athletes trained for years to compete at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
  • Olympic Games
  • Olympic Committee
  • Olympic athletes

Imagine I am the coach of an Olympic Sprint relay team.

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Examples

  • He won, you know, Olympic medals, World Championships by a lot.

  • And that pressure led the IOC, the Olympic Committee to take action.

  • Where is the next Olympic game set to take place?

  • I was on track to head up the Olympic squad.

  • Some people are in good shape, but they want to become Olympic style athletes.

  • Probably, she thought, this was what it was like to be an Olympic athlete.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Official athletic shoe of the 1984 Olympic Games.

  • Every four years millions of viewers watch Olympic competition and cheer for competitors from their own countries.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Please welcome six time Olympic medalist Ali Raisman.

  • She is speed walking like she's at the Olympic speed walking finals.

Compounds

42 1.1

A large international sports event held every four years where athletes from many countries compete

An organization that runs the modern Olympic Games around the world

A major international sports event that happens every four years for winter sports like skiing and skating

An ancient Greek festival at Olympia every four years with athletic competitions to honor Zeus

Olympic god
  • Literature
8.3

A main god in ancient Greek myths who lives on Mount Olympus

A national park in Washington state with rainforests, mountains, and many animals

olympic salamander
  • Specialized
9.9

A small animal with big eyes and moist skin that lives near streams in the northwestern United States

How Competitive

Olympic
3.3
professional
16 3.5
ski race
  • UK
1 2.4

Surface Forms

Olympic positive

Morphology

Olympic = Olympia (semi-transparent) = Olympia + ic

Formed from 'Olympia' + '-ic', but the modern institutional sense 'relating to the Olympic Games' is an extended, conventionalized meaning beyond strictly geographic relation.

Etymology

Olympic for the sports event also comes from the place Olympia, where people held great games long ago. So calling the Games Olympic reminds us they are 'of Olympia' and follow that ancient sporting tradition.