Olympiad

n. celebration of the modern Olympic Games occurring every four years; period of four years between the ancient Olympic festivities by which the Greeks kept track of the passage of time

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 a calendar epoch. In this reckoning, the first Olympiad lasted from the summer of 776 BC to that of 772 BC. By extrapolation, the year of the th Olympiad begins in summer 2008.
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Noun
1. one of the 4-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC
(hypernym) time period, period of time, period
2. the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country
(synonym) Olympic Games, Olympics
(hypernym) athletic contest, athletic competition, athletics
(hyponym) Winter Olympic Games, Winter Olympics

(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 foot race, which took place in the year 776 b.c.; as, the era of the olympiads.
  

olympiad /'ɔləpɔ'dri:də/
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