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Olympiad

noun

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. Synonyms: Olympic Games, Olympics.

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... England in the last century, is now admitted to be not a pseudo-archaic imitation, as Bockh maintained, but a genuine specimen of Greek writing in Asia Minor, contemporary, or nearly so, with the Branchidae inscriptions. Kirchhoff considers it not later than Olympiad 69 ...

— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy

... Apostle writes the Apocalypse, and twenty centuries later human science ratifies his words and turns his visions into maxims. And what comes of it all? Why this,—that the peoples live as they have ever lived, as they lived in the first Olympiad, as they lived on the morrow of Creation, and on the eve of the great cataclysm. The waves of Doubt have covered all things. The same floods surge with the same measured motion on the human granite which serves as a boundary to the ocean of intelligence. ...

— Seraphita • Honore de Balzac

Words linked to "Olympiad" : athletic contest, Winter Olympics, Olympic Games, athletic competition, time period, Olympics, period, Winter Olympic Games, period of time, athletics