Olympus

Speech parts

1. Olympus - Noun

2. Olympus - Proper noun

Meaning

a mountain peak in northeast Greece near the Aegean coast; believed by ancient Greeks to be the dwelling place of the gods (9,570 feet high)

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Examples

And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus. Anne Rice

A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile. William Winwood Reade

Without ideality, there is no grandeur; without grandeur there is no beauty. Olympus is a mountain. The most effective monument will always be the Pyramids. Exuberance is better than taste; the desert is better than a streetpavement, and a savage is surely better than a hairdresser! Gustave Flaubert

And she conceived and bore to Zeus, who delights in the thunderbolt, two sons, Magnes and Macedon, rejoicing in horses, who dwell round about Pieria and Olympus. Hesiod

I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus. François Rabelais

It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven. Lactantius

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