Olympiad

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Matching Terms:		olympia, olympian, olympian games, olympianism
WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country [n] one of the 4-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC

	Synonyms:	Olympic Games, Olympics

	See Also:	athletic competition, athletic contest, athletics, period, period of time, time period, Winter Olympic Games, Winter Olympics

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Olym"piad\, n. The quadrennial celebration of the modern Olympic games; as, the first Olympiad (1906). \Olym"piad\ ([-o]l[i^]m"p[i^][a^]d), n. [L. olympias, -adis, Gr. 'olympia`s, -a`dos, fr. 'O`lympos Olympus, a mountain in Macedonia: cf. F. olympiade.] (Greek Antiq.) 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[oe]bus in the foot race, which took place in the year 776 b.c.; as, the era of the olympiads.