olympia

1. 1.

   capital of the state of Washington; located in western Washington on Puget Sound

   Synonymscapital of Washington

   Broaderstate capital

   Part ofWashington
2. 2.

   a plain in Greece in the northwestern Peloponnese; the chief sanctuary of Zeus and the site of the original Olympian Games

   Broaderplain

   Part ofPeloponnese

Other forms of olympia

plural

olympias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about olympia

What does olympia mean?

olympia means "capital of the state of Washington; located in western Washington on Puget Sound". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in olympia?

olympia has 4 syllables: o-lym-pi-a. The stress falls on "lym". In IPA it is /oʊˈlɪmpiə/.

What is another word for olympia?

Close synonyms include capital of Washington. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is olympia a common word?

olympia is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.