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- Obeah
- Objectivity
- Oblate
- Oblation
- Obscene
- Obsolete
- Occult
- Ocean
- Oceanus
- Oceanus (or Ocean)
- Octave
- Octet
- Ode
- Odysseus
- Odysseus and Circe
- Odysseus and Scylla and Charybdis
- Odysseus and the Cyclops Polyphemus
- Odysseus and the Sirens
- Odyssey
- Oedipus
- Oedipus complex
- Oedipus Rex
- Oedipus Rex
- Oenomaus
- Oenon
- Oenone
- Offensive
- Offering
- Oil
- Old Covenant
- Old English
- Old Lady Day
- Old Latin
- Old Testament
- Oligarchy
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- Oliver Cromwell
- Olympian gods
- Olympian gods
- Olympus
- Olympus
- Omen
- Omnicient Narrator
- Omnipotent
- Omnipresence
- Omniscience
- One thing is needful
- Onesimus
- Onomatopoeia
- Opera
A-Z: General definitions: Olympus
Definition
a sacred mountain in northern Greece, where it was believed the gods dwelt.
That which belongs to the divine, or holy, or to God; as opposed to secular, which is that belonging to the material world of time.
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