Olympiad : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Olympiad	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Olympiad n one of the four-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country Synonym(s): Olympic Games, Olympics, Olympiad
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Olympiad \Olym"piad\, n. The quadrennial celebration of the modern Olympic games; as, the first Olympiad (1906).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Olympiad \Olym"piad\ ([osl]l[icr]m"p[icr][acr]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.