Olympianesque

English

Etymology

From Olympian +‎ -esque.

Adjective

Olympianesque (comparative more Olympianesque, superlative most Olympianesque)

1. (rare) Characteristic of the Olympic Games or Olympians.
   • 1972 June 20, Jerry Nason, “Fredericks shows kick, must in Olympic 10,000”, Tuesday Track Talk, in The Boston Evening Globe, volume 201, number 172, Boston, Mass.: Globe Newspaper Co., page 30:

     Among those bypassing Seattle were athletes of Olympianesque stature such as Steve Prefontaine, Jim Ryun, George Woods, Al Feuerbach, Dr. Delano Meriwether, Bob Seagren, John Smith, Larry Burton, Wayne Collett, George Frenn. They’ll add to the heat in the kitchen at Eugene.

   • 2004 Spring, Jeffrey O. Segrave, “Sport and the Development of Character In Charles Schultz’s Peanuts”, in Aethlon, volume 21, number 2, page 41:

     “Most of us,” Schultz rightly notes, “are much more acquainted with losing than we are with winning” (Jubilee 12). And so the Olympianesque message encoded in Charlie Brown’s athletic tribulations is that while life may well be futile and defeat inevitable […]

   • 2012, Maurya Wickstrom, “Robots, gods and greed: The theatrum mundi in the Forum Shops at Caesar’s Palace” (chapter 2), in Performing Consumers: Global Capital and its Theatrical Seductions, London: Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     For instance, the protruding marquee marking the entrance to the Disney store serves as the stage for this odd pastiche: an Olympianesque torch of gigantic proportions, a Pegasus with wings ready for flight, seeming to draw behind it in a little chariot Minnie and Mickey, who wave out to the mall, like touring royalty.