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Olympics

Olympics proper noun: synonym of Olympic Games.

Proper noun

the Olympics pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Synonym of Olympic Games.
    • According to Russian deputy prime minister Dmitrii Kozak, every ruble spent on preparations for the Sochi Olympics has been justified.2014 February 13, Thomas Remington, “10 explanations for Russia’s coming fiscal squeeze”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...
    Synonyms:
    Olympic Games

Noun

Olympics (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory, figuratively, often, slang) Any real or perceived competition.
    • A champion in the beauty Olympics

Olympics meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Sinhala

Olympics in Hindi

sport event — see also Olympic Games
ओलंपिक olampik

Olympics in Urdu

sport event — see also Olympic Games
اولَمْپِک olampik

Olympics in Bengali

sport event — see also Olympic Games
অলিম্পিক olimpik, অলিম্পিক্স olimpikśo

Olympics in Sinhala

sport event — see also Olympic Games
ඔලිම්පික් olimpik
More languagesFewer languages
Olympics in Pashto
المپيا olampyã
Olympics in Tagalog
Olimpiko
Olympics in Arabic
أُولِمْبِيَّة ʔulimbiyya
Olympics in Indonesian
Olimpiade
Olympics in Thai
โอลิมปิก oo-lim-bpìk
Olympics in Vietnamese
thế vận hội, ô-lim-pích
Olympics in Myanmar
အိုလံပစ် uilampac

Synonyms of Olympics

Origin of Olympics

From Olympic + -s.

Words formed from Olympics

Questions about Olympics

What does Olympics mean?
Olympics means synonym of Olympic Games.
What is Olympics in Hindi?
Olympics in Hindi is ओलंपिक (olampik). See Olympics meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Olympics?
Olympics can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Olympics in the dictionary

  1. Olympic villages
  2. Olympic Winter Games
  3. Olympically
  4. olympicene
  5. Olympicly
  6. Olympics
  7. Olympieion
  8. Olympion
  9. Olympism
  10. olympite
  11. Olympus

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Olympics (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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