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Meaning
Noun
●
Alternative letter-case form of Olympiad, q.v.
●
In Sports:
A four-year
period
,
particularly
(historical) those based on Hippias's
computations
of the
ancient
Olympic Games which
placed
Coroebus's
footrace
victory
in 776 BCE and (sports) those based on the
modern
Summer Olympic Games first
held
in 1896.
●
In Sports:
Synonym of Olympic Games: an
instance
of the
ancient
or
modern
Olympic Games.
●
A
competition
aspiring
to the
importance
of the Olympic Games or considered
similar
to them, especially one
occurring
at 4-year
intervals
,
representing
a
national
or international range of
amateur
student
rather than
professional
adult
competition
,
and/or
requiring
the
highest
level of ability
in the field
for success.
Sourced from
Wiktionary
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