OLYMPIAD
Dictionary entry overview: What does Olympiad mean?
• OLYMPIAD (noun)
The noun OLYMPIAD has 2 senses:
1. one of the four-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC
2. the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country
Familiarity information: OLYMPIAD used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• OLYMPIAD (noun)
Meaning:
One of the four-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Olympiad" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Meaning:
The modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
Olympic Games; Olympics; Olympiad
Hypernyms ("Olympiad" is a kind of...):
athletic competition; athletic contest; athletics (a contest between athletes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Olympiad"):
Winter Olympic Games; Winter Olympics (an Olympics for winter sports)
