OLYMPIAD
\əlˈɪmpɪˌad], \əlˈɪmpɪˌad], \ə_l_ˈɪ_m_p_ɪ__ˌa_d]\
Definitions of OLYMPIAD
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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The quadrennial celebration of the modern Olympic games; as, the first (1906).
By Noah Webster.
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In ancient Greece, a period of four years, being the interval between the Olympic games, used in reckoning time (the date of the 1st Olympiad is 776 B.C.).
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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In ancient Greece, the space of four years between one celebration of the Olympic games and another, a system of chronology which reckons from 776 B.C.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
