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Olympiad   /oʊlˈɪmpiˌæd/   Listen
Olympiad

noun
1.
One of the four-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC.
2.
The modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country.  Synonyms: Olympic Games, Olympics.






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"Olympiad" Quotes from Famous Books



... was dans le movement gently intimated to his hearers that what may be called a robuster tone ruled the spirit of the age. Charity was going down, athletics were coming up. Another Olympiad had passed away. Wise indeed was Solon, who allowed four years for men to soften and to harden again. During the Olympiads it is to be presumed that men busied themselves with the slums that existed in those days, hearkened to the decadent poetry or fiction of that time, and ...
— Roden's Corner • Henry Seton Merriman



Words linked to "Olympiad" :   athletic contest, period of time, athletic competition, athletics, period, Olympic Games, time period, Winter Olympic Games, Winter Olympics, Olympics



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