Look up: Olympiad

1. Olympiad
   [n] - one of the 4-year intervals between Olympic Games
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2. olympiad
   In ancient Greece, the period of four years between each celebration of the Olympic Games. The method of dating by olympiads was used only for literary and historic purposes and was never adopted in...
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3. Olympiad
   O·lym'pi·ad (o*lĭm'pĭ*ăd) noun [ Latin olympias , -adis , Greek 'olympia`s , -a`dos , from 'O`lympos Olympus, a mountain in Macedonia: confer French olympiade .] (Greek Anti...
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4. Olympiad
   O·lym'pi·ad noun The quadrennial celebration of the modern Olympic games; as, the first Olympiad (1906).
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5. Olympiad
   noun one of the four-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC
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6. Olympiad
   • (n.) The quadrennial celebration of the modern Olympic games; as, the first Olympiad (1906). • (n.) 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 foo...
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7. Olympiad
   Olympiad, unit of a chronological era of ancient Greece, a four-year period, each one beginning with the Olympic games. Timaeus (c.356–c.260 B.C.) of Sicily was the first to use, as a check on chronology, the list of victors kept in the gymnasium at Olympia. The first Olympiad was reckoned to ...
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8. Olympiad
   An `Olympiad` is a period of four years, associated with the Olympic Games of Classical Greece. In the Hellenistic period, beginning with Ephorus, Olympiads were used as calendar epoch. In this reckoning, the first Olympiad lasted from the summer of 776 BC to that of 772 BC. By extrapolation, the }+...
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