o|lym|pi|ad

o|lym|pi|ad
O|lym|pi|ad or o|lym|pi|ad «oh LIHM pee ad», noun.
1. a period of four years reckoned from one celebration of the Olympic Games to the next, by which the Greeks computed time from 776 B.C.
2. a celebration of the modern Olympic Games.
3. any international contest, especially one modeled on the Olympic Games: »

the 22nd Chess Olympiad, the World Culinary Olympiad.

╂[probably < Middle French, Old French olympiade, learned borrowing from Latin Olympias, -adis < Greek Olympiás, -ádos, ultimately < Ólympus the village (where games were held), and the mountain]

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