OLYMPIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Olympia mean? 

• OLYMPIA (noun)
  The noun OLYMPIA has 2 senses:

1. capital of the state of Washington; located in western Washington on Puget Sound

2. a plain in Greece in the northwestern Peloponnese; the chief sanctuary of Zeus and the site of the original Olympian Games

  Familiarity information: OLYMPIA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLYMPIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capital of the state of Washington; located in western Washington on Puget Sound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Washington; Olympia

Instance hypernyms:

state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)

Holonyms ("Olympia" is a part of...):

Evergreen State; WA; Wash.; Washington (a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A plain in Greece in the northwestern Peloponnese; the chief sanctuary of Zeus and the site of the original Olympian Games

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

champaign; field; plain (extensive tract of level open land)

Holonyms ("Olympia" is a part of...):

Peloponnese; Peloponnesian Peninsula; Peloponnesus (the southern peninsula of Greece; dominated by Sparta until the 4th century BC)

Derivation:

Olympic (of the region of Olympia in Greece or its inhabitants)

 Context examples 

You yacht against them, you hunt with them, you play polo, you match them in every game, your four-in-hand takes the prize at Olympia.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)