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Olympics   /oʊlˈɪmpɪks/   Listen
Olympics

noun
1.
The modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country.  Synonyms: Olympiad, Olympic Games.



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"Olympics" Quotes from Famous Books



... shirt-sleeves who want to give you real estate, all talk about the View. The View is to Seattle what the car-service, the auditorium, the flivver-factory, or the price of coal is to other cities. At parties in Seattle, you discuss the question of whether the View of Lake Union or the View of the Olympics is the better, and polite office-managers say to their stenographers as they enter, "How's your View this morning?" All real-estate deeds include a patent on the View, and every native son has it as his ...
— Free Air • Sinclair Lewis
 
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... epistle of his to Hippocrates: [185]the "Abderites account virtue madness," and so do most men living. Shall I tell you the reason of it? [186]Fortune and Virtue, Wisdom and Folly, their seconds, upon a time contended in the Olympics; every man thought that Fortune and Folly would have the worst, and pitied their cases; but it fell out otherwise. Fortune was blind and cared not where she stroke, nor whom, without laws, Audabatarum instar, &c. Folly, rash and inconsiderate, esteemed as little ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
 
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Words linked to "Olympics" :   Winter Olympics, Olympic Games, athletic competition, Winter Olympic Games, Special Olympics, athletic contest, Olympiad, athletics



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