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olympia
/oʊˈlɪmpiə/
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What does olympia mean?
proper noun
- An ancient city in Greece, home of the ancient Olympic Games.
- The state capital of Washington, and the county seat of Thurston County.
- A ghost town in Lowndes County, Georgia.
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proper noun
- An unincorporated community in Bath County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Cedar County, Missouri.
- A census-designated place in Richland County, South Carolina.
- A female given name from Ancient Greek; quite rare in English.
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IPA pronunciation
/oʊˈlɪmpiə/
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In Olympia he is said to have uttered the saying everybody has heard, that Phidias had carved Homer's Jupiter.
Mr. Stanley Spencer made himself early known to the world by a series of parachute descents, performed from the roof of Olympia.
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It stood near the head of the Sound not far from Olympia.
I admired the businesslike air of the Olympia; but I have the feeling still that the captain was just a little too precise in his reckoning.
We worked on the same bill several times; but it was at the Olympia, in Paris, that he shone supreme as a strongman--and at the same time as a weak one.