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Olympiad

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Olympiad unit of a chronological era of ancient Greece, a four-year period, each one beginning with the Olympic games . Timaeus (c.356-c.260 BC) of Sicily was the first to use, as a check on chronology, the list of victors kept in the gymnasium at Olympia. The first Olympiad was reckoned to have begun in 776 BC ... Read more
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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes Olympiad •multi-layered • beard , weird •greybeard ( US graybeard) •bluebeard • Iliad • Olympiad • myriad •period • hamadryad , jeremiad, semi-retired, underwired, undesired, unexpired, uninspired... Read more
Olympiad
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology Olympiad period of four years between celebrations of the Olympic games (ancient Gr. festival). XVI. — F. Olympiade or L. Olympias , -ad- — Gr. Olumpiás , f. Olúmpios , adj. of O'lumpos lofty mountain in Thessaly, Greece... Read more

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