English words starting with ol - page 6

Meanings of Ollamh:

noun

A rank of irish learned man, the most distinguished kind of file; a master of a particular field of knowledge, especially a master poet or chronicler. revived as a symbolic rank in 20th-century festivals.

Meanings of Ollie:

noun

(in skateboarding and snowboarding) a jump performed without the aid of a take-off ramp, executed by pressing the foot down on the tail of the board to rebound the deck off the ground.

Usage examples:

While sherm dealt the frontside half-cab flip and switch backside flip, eric had the thankless task…

verb

Perform an ollie.

Usage examples:

They taught me to ollie and stuff

Meanings of Olm:

noun

A pale-skinned blind salamander with external gills which lives in limestone caves in south-eastern europe.

Usage examples:

Consider the olm, a colorless, sightless salamander that lives in underground rivers in slovenia.

Meanings of Ological:

suffix

Used to form adjectives; belonging or relating to a particular type of scientific study

Usage examples:

Biological, technological

Meanings of Ologist:

suffix

Used to form nouns; an expert in a particular area of scientific study

Usage examples:

Archaeologist

Meanings of Ology:

noun

A subject of study; a branch of knowledge.

Usage examples:

Well you've learned a lot from the ‘ologies that you studied: sociology, anthropology, and psycholo…

combining form

Denoting a subject of study or interest.

Usage examples:

Psychology

Meanings of Ololiuqui:

noun

A tropical american morning glory, turbina corymbosa (family convolvulaceae). also: a psychoactive drug prepared from the seeds of this plant, used traditionally for ritual purposes by the aztecs.

Meanings of Olona:

noun

A hawaiian shrub, touchardia latifolia (family urticaceae), whose bark yields a fibre that was formerly used in cordage; fibre obtained from this shrub.

Meanings of Olonets:

noun

A finno-ugric language (one of the principal varieties of karelian), mainly spoken in the area between lake ladoga and lake onega.

Meanings of Olonetsian:

noun

A finno-ugric language, one of the main varieties of karelian; = olonets .

Meanings of Oloroso:

noun

A heavy, dark, medium-sweet sherry.

Usage examples:

Pale, dry fino and amontillado style wines are made from free-run juice, while heavier styles simil…

Meanings of Olpe:

noun

(a) a leather flask for carrying oil or other liquids. (b) a kind of jug with a pear-shaped body and a handle.

Meanings of Olykoek:

noun

A small ball-shaped cake made of sweetened dough and traditionally fried in lard (similar to a doughnut).

Meanings of Olympia:

proper noun

A plain in greece, in the western peloponnese. in ancient greece it was the site of the chief sanctuary of the god zeus, the place where the original olympic games were held, after which the site is named.

Meanings of Olympiad:

noun

An occasion when the ancient or modern olympic games were or are held.

Usage examples:

St. louis was host to the third modern olympiad in 1904, and francis field, on the campus of washin…

Meanings of Olympian:

adjective

Associated with mount olympus in north-eastern greece, or with the greek gods whose home was traditionally held to be there.

Usage examples:

A temple of olympian zeus

noun

Any of the pantheon of twelve greek gods regarded as living on olympus.

Usage examples:

Besides the twelve olympians, demeter and dionysios, the gods of wheat and wine, have a significant…

Meanings of Olympianism:

noun

The polytheistic religious system of the ancient greeks, in which the olympians were the chief gods and goddesses. in extended use: any polytheistic religious system.

Meanings of Olympianize:

verb

To endow with the attributes of an olympian god or goddess; to exalt to the position of an olympian.

Meanings of Olympianly:

adverb

In an olympian manner; loftily, condescendingly.

Meanings of Olympians:

noun

Any of the pantheon of twelve greek gods regarded as living on olympus.

Usage examples:

Besides the twelve olympians, demeter and dionysios, the gods of wheat and wine, have a significant…

adjective

Associated with mount olympus in north-eastern greece, or with the greek gods whose home was traditionally held to be there.

Usage examples:

A temple of olympian zeus

Meanings of Olympic:

adjective

Relating to ancient olympia or the olympic games.

Usage examples:

An olympic champion

Meanings of Olympics:

plural noun

International winter and summer sports competitions, each taking place every four years, but not in the same year

Usage examples:

She won a gold medal at the winter olympics in nagano, japan, in 1998.

Meanings of Olympus:

proper noun

The home of the twelve greater gods, identified in later antiquity with mount olympus in greece.