noun
Meaning 1
Alternative letter-case form of Olympiad.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
olympiad
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /oʊˈlɪm.pi.æd/
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General-American: /oʊˈlɪm.pi.əd/
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General-American: /əˈlɪm.pi.əd/
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Received-Pronunciation: /əˈlɪmpiæd/
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Received-Pronunciation: /-əd/
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noun
Meaning 2
A four-year period, particularly (historical) those based on Hippias's computations of the ancient Olympic Games which placed Coroebus's footrace victory in 776 BCE and (sports) those based on the modern Summer Olympic Games first held in 1896.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Ancient sources variously dated the founding of Rome to the 38th year before the first Olympiad, the third or fourth year of the sixth Olympiad, the first year of the seventh or eighth Olympiad, or the fourth year of the 12th Olympiad.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: quadrennium
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Synonym of Olympic Games: an instance of the ancient or modern Olympic Games.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: proscribed, sometimes
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
Examples
- Victors at the ancient Olympiads only won an olive wreath but were usually freed from paying taxes for the remainder of their life, but modern Olympians have frequently needed to pay taxes on the market value of their gold, silver, or bronze medals.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Olympic Games
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A competition aspiring to the importance of the Olympic Games or considered similar to them, especially one occurring at 4-year intervals, representing a national or international range of amateur student rather than professional adult competition, and/or requiring the highest level of ability in the field for success.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Qualifier: usually preceded by descriptive words
Examples
- the International Mathematical Olympiad... the Science Olympiad... the International Science Olympiads... the Women's Chess Olympiad...
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Olympic Games, Olympics
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: athletic contest, athletic competition, athletics
Narrower terms: Winter Olympic Games, Winter Olympics
noun
Meaning 6
one of the four-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: time period, period of time, period
History
Etymology
From the plural forms Olimpiades, Olympiades, and Olympiadiz of Middle English Olimpias and Olympias (“ancient Olympic Games, 4-year period between these games, intense battle or competition”) from Middle French Olympiade and Old French Olympiade (“ancient Olympic games, 4-year period between these games”), from Latin Olympias (“4-year period between Olympic Games”) whose genitive form was Olympiados or Olympiadis), from Ancient Greek Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́ς (Olumpĭắs, “ancient Olympic Games, 4-year period between these games”) whose plural form was Ὀλυμπῐᾰ́δες (Olumpĭắdes), from Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱ (Olumpĭ́ā, “Olympia”), the town in ancient Greece where the games were held, + -ᾰ́ς (-ắs, a suffix forming feminine adjectives or nouns), from either Ὀλῠ́μπῐος (Olŭ́mpĭos, “of or related to Mount Olympus, Olympian, the Olympian Zeus”) or Ὄλῠμπος (Ólŭmpos, “Mount Olympus”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). The use of olympiad for academic competitions aspiring to the level of the Olympic Games was first popularized by the International Mathematical Olympiad, a calque of its Romanian name Olimpiada Internațională de Matematică.
Across languages
Translations
78 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: Olimpiade — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Arabic: أُولِمْبْيَاد (ʔūlimbyād) — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Arabic: أُولِمْبِيَّة (ʔūlimbiyya) — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Armenian: օլիմպիադա (ōlimpiada) — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Old Armenian: ողոմպիադ (ołompiad) — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Asturian: Olimpiada — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Basque: olinpiada — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Breton: Olimpiadenn — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Bulgarian: Олимпиада (Olimpiada) — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Catalan: olimpíada — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Chinese Mandarin: 奧林匹克週期 /奥林匹克周期 (àolínpǐkèzhōuqī, -qí) — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Danish: olympiade — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Dutch: olympiade — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Esperanto: olimpiado — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Estonian: Olümpiaad — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Finnish: olympiadi — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- French: olympiade — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Galician: olimpíada — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Georgian: ოლიმპიადა (olimṗiada) — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- German: Olympiade — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Greek: ολυμπιάδα (olympiáda) — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Ancient Greek: Ὀλυμπιάς (Olumpiás) — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Hebrew: אוֹלִימְפְּיָאדָה (olimpyáda) — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Hindi: ओलम्पियाड (olampiyāḍ) — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Hungarian: olimpiász — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Ido: olimpiado — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Indonesian: Olimpiade — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Interlingua: olympiade — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Italian: olimpiade — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Japanese: オリンピアード (orinpiādo) — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Korean: 올림피아드 (ollimpiadeu) — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Latin: Olympias — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Malay: olimpiad — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Middle English: Olimpias — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Middle English: Olympias — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Norwegian Bokmål: olympiade — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Persian: المپیاد — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Polish: olimpiada — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Portuguese: olimpíada — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Romanian: olimpiadă — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Russian: олимпиа́да (olimpiáda) — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Serbo-Croatian: олимпијада — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Serbo-Croatian: olimpijada — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Sicilian: alimpìati — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Sicilian: ulimpìadi — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Sicilian: alimpìada — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Slovak: olympiáda — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Slovene: olimpijada — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Spanish: olimpíada — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Swedish: olympiad — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Tagalog: Olimpyada — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Turkish: Olimpiyat — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Ukrainian: олімпіада (olimpiada) — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Urdu: اولمپکیاڈ (olimpiyāḍ) — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Welsh: Olympiad — period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Danish: olympiade — celebration of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- French: olympiade — celebration of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Greek: ολυμπιάδα (olympiáda) — celebration of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Indonesian: Olimpiade — celebration of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Polish: olimpiada — celebration of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Sicilian: alimpìati — celebration of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Sicilian: ulimpìadi — celebration of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Sicilian: alimpìada — celebration of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Tagalog: Olimpyada — celebration of the ancient or modern Olympic Games
- Chinese Mandarin: 奧林匹克 /奥林匹克 (àolínpǐkè) — high-level competitions in other fields, especially among students
- Chinese Mandarin: 奧林匹克競賽 /奥林匹克竞赛 (àolínpǐkè jìngsài) — high-level competitions in other fields, especially among students
- Chinese Mandarin: 奧賽 /奥赛 (àosài) — high-level competitions in other fields, especially among students
- Chinese Mandarin: 奧林匹亞 /奥林匹亚 (àolínpǐyà) — high-level competitions in other fields, especially among students
- German: Olympiade — high-level competitions in other fields, especially among students
- Indonesian: Olimpiade — high-level competitions in other fields, especially among students
- Polish: olimpiada — high-level competitions in other fields, especially among students
- Portuguese: olimpíada — high-level competitions in other fields, especially among students
- Romanian: olimpiada — high-level competitions in other fields, especially among students
- Russian: олимпиада (olimpiada) — high-level competitions in other fields, especially among students
- Sicilian: alimpìati — high-level competitions in other fields, especially among students
- Sicilian: ulimpìadi — high-level competitions in other fields, especially among students
- Sicilian: alimpìada — high-level competitions in other fields, especially among students
- Ukrainian: олімпіада (olimpiada) — high-level competitions in other fields, especially among students
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