olympiad

Noun

Meaning

A period of four years, by which the ancient Greeks reckoned time, being the interval from one celebration of the Olympic games to another, beginning with the victory of Cor/bus in the foot race, which took place in the year 776 b.c.; as, the era of the olympiads.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

Olympics Olympic Games olympian olympic period IoC quadrennium paralympic Games Olympian Games olympiades Four-year period

Hypernyms

period athletics period of time time period athletic competition athletic contest

Hyponyms

Winter Olympics Winter Olympic Games

Phrases with the word

games of the olympiad

Anagrams

polyamid

Examples

After 1965 After Tokyo Olympiad Wada retired from screenwriting, and it marked a significant change in Ichikawa's films from that point onward. Source: Internet

An international math olympiad competition first held in Singapore in 2015 and over 13 countries participated from SASMO's 15 country partners. Source: Internet

For the 1994 Moscow Olympiad, he had a significant organizational role, in helping to put together the event on short notice, after Thessaloniki canceled its offer to host, a few weeks before the scheduled dates. Source: Internet

After a long day at the Olympiad, the players return to the hotel to talk about, what else, chess. Source: Internet

Bloom quoted in Bird. pg. 97 The first notice of Thorpe in the The New York Times was headlined "Indian Thorpe in Olympiad; Redskin from Carlisle Will Strive for Place on American Team." Source: Internet

By a complex formula (made so by the 0 reference point not falling on the border of an Olympiad), these codes correspond to 59 BC for the birth, 17 AD for the death. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

olykoek Olympia Olympia oyster olympiadane Olympiadic olympian