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OLYMPIAD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country
Synonyms:
Olympiad; Olympic Games; Olympics
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Olympiad" is a kind of...):
athletic competition; athletic contest; athletics (a contest between athletes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Olympiad"):
Winter Olympic Games; Winter Olympics (an Olympics for winter sports)
Sense 2
Meaning:
One of the four-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Olympiad" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
