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olympiad::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | olympic games, olympics |
| Type of | athletic competition, athletic contest, athletics |
| Has types | winter olympic games, winter olympics |
olympiad::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | period, period of time, time period |
Examples of olympiad
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The olympiad involves two days of intense competition for five hours each day.
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The Louie Cup is a year-long olympiad of games taken seriously by the house community.
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This olympiad furthers the fields of mathematical, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics.
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The Games will mark the first time Russia hosts a winter olympiad.
From the usatoday.com
It is after all being touted as the key cultural olympiad show.
From the guardian.co.uk
The Games were usually held every four years, or olympiad, as the unit of time came to be known.
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Olympiad bureaucrats still behave like grand panjandrums.
From the economist.com
Sculptors and poets would congregate each olympiad to display their works of art to would-be patrons.
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They finished second at the chess olympiad in Buenos Aires after the Hungarian team snatched the gold medals.
From the washingtonpost.com
- One of the four-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC
- Olympic Games: the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country
- 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. ...
- L'Olimpiade is an opera libretto in three acts by Metastasio, that was originally written for Antonio Caldara's 1733 opera. Following Caldara's success, more than 60 baroque and classical composers used the libretto for their own renditions. ...
- Represents multiple sporting events in a single game, similar to the Olympics. Examples: Summer Games, Winter Games, Boot Camp, Ski or Die, etc.
- Biennale team tournaments contested by teams representing the members of FIDE. The first Olympiad was held in London 1927.
- The official designation for a bridge tournament conducted and contested by the Rules and Regulations of the World Bridge Federation. The WBF is the official successor of the Internationa Bridge League, which was founded in the month of August 1958, in the city of Oslo, Norway. ...
- Also referred to as a Chess Olympiad, it's a team event and FIDE-organized tournament, played by teams from all across the world, over a period of two years.
- The athletic contests held near Mount Olympos in honor of the gods. The funeral games of Patroklos seem to be based on the contests of the Olympiad.
