Olympiad

[əu'limpiæd]

解释:

(noun.) one of the four-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC.

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(n.) 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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n. in ancient Greece a period of four years being the interval from one celebration of the Olympic games to another used in reckoning time (the date of the first Olympiad is 776 B.C.).—adjs. Olym′pian Olym′pic pertaining to Olympia in Elis where the Olympic games were celebrated or to Mount Olympus in Thessaly the seat of the gods.—n. a dweller in Olympus one of the twelve greater gods of Greek mythology.—ns.pl. Olym′pics Olym′pic games games celebrated every four years at Olympia dedicated to Olympian Zeus; Olym′pus the abode of the gods supposed to have been Mount Olympus in Thessaly.

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