Olympiad is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OLYMPIAD in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a celebration of the Olympic Games
• an occasion when the ancient or modern Olympic Games were or are held.
• a period of four years between Olympic Games, used by the ancient Greeks in dating events.
• a major international contest in a particular game, sport, or scientific subject
• staging of the modern Olympic Games
• 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.
• one of the four-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC
• the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country

Words related to OLYMPIAD

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Words that contain OLYMPIAD

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How to use OLYMPIAD in a sentence

• He flourished about the 115th Olympiad, 318 years before the Christian aera.
• Olympiad in ancient Greece meant the space of four years between one celebration of the Olympic games and another.
• If we may judge by line 51, and if Greek musical tradition be correct, the date of the Hymn cannot be earlier than the fortieth Olympiad.
• This Pantarces won the wrestling-prize for boys in the 86th Olympiad.
• They begin from Cecrops, and come down to the 160th Olympiad.
• One foot of black peat, therefore, will measure the time from before the founding of Rome or the First Olympiad to the beginning of our era.

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