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OLYMPIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Capital of the state of Washington; located in western Washington on Puget Sound
Synonyms:
capital of Washington; Olympia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
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)
