olympiad

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Noun

olympiad (plural olympiads)

1. A period of four years, by which the ancient Greeks reckoned time, being the interval from one celebration of the Olympic games to another, beginning with the victory of Corbus in the foot race, which took place in the year 776 b.c.; as, the era of the olympiads.

Translations

period of four years

Arabic: أولمبياد (ar) ('ulimbyaad) m., أولمبية (ar) ('ulimbíyya) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 奧林匹克 (zh), 奥林匹克 (zh) (àolínpǐkè) French: olympiade (fr) f. German: Olympiade (de) f. Greek: ολυμπιάδα (el) (olympiáda) f. Hungarian: olimpiász (hu)

Italian: olimpiade (it) f. Japanese: オリンピック (ja) (orinpikku), オリンピアード (ja) (orinpiādo) Korean: 올림픽 (ko) (ollimpik) Polish: olimpiada (pl) f. Russian: олимпиада (ru) (olimpiáda) f. Spanish: olimpíada (es) f. Swedish: olympiad (sv) c.

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Swedish

Noun

olympiad c.

1. olympiad (period of 4 years between Olympic Games)
2. Olympic Games

Declension

Declension of olympiad

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	olympiad	olympiaden	olympiader	olympiaderna
genitive	olympiads	olympiadens	olympiaders	olympiadernas

Related terms

• sommarolympiad
• vinterolympiad