Olympian

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They’re passing legal and medical licensing exams, and winning math olympiads.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

A great painter, who flourished many olympiads ago, has, in his volume entitled the Canon, defined the line of beauty.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

But these strikes become olympiads, things to date from; and common on the lips of men become such phrases as “The Great Dock Strike,” “The Great Coal Strike,” “The Great Railroad Strike.”

From War of the Classes by London, Jack

The Greeks themselves reckoned from that date by means of olympiads or intervals between the Olympic games.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by Rudd, John

These festivals were known as the Olympian Games; and the Greeks generally reckoned time by olympiads, that is to say, by the space of time between the celebrations.

From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by Guerber, H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline)