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Four-year period between the quests for gold
Answer for the clue "Four-year period between the quests for gold ", 8 letters:
olympiad
Alternative clues for the word olympiad
- One of the 4-year intervals between Olympic Games
- To be held in Australia, 1956
- Certain four-year period
- The modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country
- Major international contest
- Used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC
- Quadrennial event
Word definitions for olympiad in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative case form of Olympiad English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "period of four years" (between Olympic games), from Old French olimpiade "period of four years," from Latin Olympiadem , from Greek olympiados , genitive of Olympias (see Olympic ). Used by ancient Greeks as a unit in computing time. Revived ...
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.