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olympiad
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n. (alternative case form of Olympiad English)
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Olympiad \O*lym"pi*ad\ ([-o]*l[i^]m"p[i^]*[a^]d), n. [L. olympias, -adis, Gr. 'olympia`s, 'olympia`dos, fr. 'O`lympos Olympus, a mountain in Macedonia: cf. F. olympiade.] (Greek Antiq.) A period of four years, by which the ancient Greeks ...
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An Olympiad (, olympiás ) is a period of four years associated with the Olympic Games of the Ancient Greeks . During the Hellenistic period , beginning with Ephorus , it was used as a calendar epoch . By this reckoning, the first Olympiad lasted from the ...
Usage examples of olympiad.
Indian, and belongs to a princess who is in Berlin for the Olympiad, as the guest of the Government.
I knew that in the weeks leading up to the Olympiad, the Gestapo were making strenuous efforts to smash the communist underground in Berlin.
Fiona was in the lobby looking at the Tenth Olympiad photos, and some of the old awards, displayed in a big glass case, when Hubert Renn saw her.
Their planet now existed with a relatively full power source, and the Olympiad held every fifty cycles charged up their storage tanks.
Their eternal rivals for the gold standard at the Olympiad were the rather savage inhabitants of nearby Magus Prime.
They also made some improbable suggestions as to what Frallien IV could do with the gold statuette customarily awarded to the Olympiad victors.
Frallien IV and the Olympiad are the crux of this upcoming catastrophe.
Our presence has been acknowledged and our official request to participate in the Olympiad has been taken under advisement.
It was the Frallien Olympiad model, which looked more like a rather well-wired bubble.
Magus Prime, as a competitor in the Frallien IV Olympiad, had its reputation on the line.
Under your instruction, Boralle North will now be entering the Olympiad on equal footing with all the other contestants.
Frallien Olympiad, let alone seize a technology to which they have no right.
He visualized the meter on the Olympiad booths registering an incredible score.
After manufacturing the most enormous storage capacitors, the Fralliens offered the first Olympiad and found, to their delight, that the sexual energies given off by almost any species was usable by their technology.
Rory looked out over the white buildings that formed the housing quarters for the Olympiad contestants while Boralle fussed around the room behind him.