Olympiade

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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n. Olympiad, international framework of sports matches occurring every four years

n. Olympiad, 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

n. Olympiad

see OLIMPIADE