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of the seventh or eighth Olympiad, or the fourth year of the 12th Olympiad.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1598, George Chapman, “Fifth Sestyad”, in Christopher Marlo[w]e, George Chapman, Hero and Leander: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Richard Hawkins: […], published 1629, →OCLC:", "text": "Now was bright Hero weary of the day,\nThought an Olympiad in Leanders ſtay.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1610, Saint Augustine, “Of Certaine Starres that the Pagans Call Their Gods”, in J[ohn] H[ealey], transl., St. Augustine, of the Citie of God: […], [London]: […] George Eld, →OCLC, book VII, page 274:", "text": "Olympiad. 42. about the yeare of Rome 142. ſhee [the planet Venus] is bigger then all the other ſtarres, and ſo cleare that (ſome-times) her beames make a ſhadowe.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], “Of Vzzia”, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, 1st book, §. 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Theſe Games were celebrated every four Years, that is, there were three Years between the Years wherein the next preceding and the next following Olympiad was celebrated. Hence by a compleat Olympiad, is denoted the Space of four Years; the Year wherein the Olympiad was celebrated, being ſtiled the firſt Year of the ſaid Olympiad, and ſo on.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1911 January, Jack London, “The Apostate”, in When God Laughs and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 55:", "text": "When he was fourteen, he went to work on the starcher. […] It marked an era. It was a machine Olympiad, a thing to date from.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2021 July 12, Natalie Merchant, “Explainer: The Tokyo Olympics by Numbers”, in World Economic Forum, archived from the original on 2021-08-02:", "text": "The Games of the XXXII Olympiad is going ahead in Tokyo a year late, despite concerns about coronavirus. 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“Of Vzzia”, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, 1st book, §. 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Theſe Games were celebrated every four Years, that is, there were three Years between the Years wherein the next preceding and the next following Olympiad was celebrated. Hence by a compleat Olympiad, is denoted the Space of four Years; the Year wherein the Olympiad was celebrated, being ſtiled the firſt Year of the ſaid Olympiad, and ſo on.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1911 January, Jack London, “The Apostate”, in When God Laughs and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 55:", "text": "When he was fourteen, he went to work on the starcher. […] It marked an era. It was a machine Olympiad, a thing to date from.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2021 July 12, Natalie Merchant, “Explainer: The Tokyo Olympics by Numbers”, in World Economic Forum, archived from the original on 2021-08-02:", "text": "The Games of the XXXII Olympiad is going ahead in Tokyo a year late, despite concerns about coronavirus. […] The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Japanese government are pressing ahead with the XXXII Olympiad after it was delayed last summer – albeit in a very different manner from usual.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2021 July 24, Tatsuro Sugiura, “Emperor in bind over use of ‘celebrate’ for Tokyo Olympiad”, in The Asahi Shimbun, Osaka: The Asahi Shimbun Company, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-30:", "text": "Emperor Naruhito was caught in a conundrum when it came to wording in his speech in Japanese to declare the 2020 Tokyo Olympics open during the July 23 Opening Ceremony at the National Stadium. […] The official English version for the Tokyo Olympics was: \"I declare open the Games of Tokyo celebrating the 32nd Olympiad of the modern era.\" […] Following discussions among central government officials and the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, it was decided to allow Naruhito to use \"kinensuru\" for celebrating. 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The Second Period, from the Taking of Troy, to the Battle of Marathon, Containing the Space of 700 Years.”, in The History of Greece. […], London: […] S. and J. Sprint, A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, Tim[othy] Childe, and Rob[ert] Knaplock, →OCLC, page 124:", "text": "It was their [the priests of Jupiter Olympius's] Buſineſs, alſo not only to regiſter the Names of the Victors in the ſeveral Games, with other Matters relating to them, but alſo whatever occurr'd remarkable, during the Intervals between the Celebration of every Olympiad.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1752, John Jackson, “Of the Origin and Æra of Oracles. [Of the Institution of the Olympic Games.]”, in Chronological Antiquities: Or, The Antiquities and Chronology of the Most Ancient Kingdoms, from the Creation of the World, for the Space of Five Thousand Years. […], volume III, London: Printed for the author; and sold by J. Noon, […], →OCLC, page 340:", "text": "Strabo […] makes Corœbus the firſt Victor at the firſt Olympiad of Iphitus; who, he ſaies, was the Reſtorer of them. This Olympiad was in the Year before Chriſt 776.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1840, Edgar A[llan] Poe, “Epimanes”, in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, published 1840, →OCLC, pages 16–17:", "text": "The noble and free citizens of Epidaphne being, as they declare, well satisfied of the faith, valor, wisdom, and divinity of their king, […] do think it no more than their duty to invest his brows (in addition to the poetic crown) with the wreath of victory in the foot race—a wreath which it is evident he must obtain at the celebration of the next Olympiad, and which, therefore, they now give him in advance.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1896 November, Pierre de Coubertin, “The Olympic Games of 1896. […]”, in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume XXXI (New Series; volume LIII overall), number 1, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co.; London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., →OCLC, page 50:", "text": "After the distribution of the prizes, the athletes formed for the traditional procession around the Stadion. Louës [i.e., Spyridon Louis], the victor of Marathon, came first, bearing the Greek flag; then the Americans, the Hungarians, the French, the Germans. […] The king announced that the first Olympiad was at an end, and left the Stadion, the band playing the Greek national hymn, and the crowd cheering.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1903 November 20, “Olympic Games”, in Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting a Statement Showing the Receipts and Disbursements of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company from Date of Incorporation to September 30, 1903, together with a Report Submitted by the Exposition Company Showing Progress Made by the Various Departments of the Exposition (58th Congress, 1st Session, document no. 12), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 58:", "text": "[I]t is the intention of the management of the exposition to make the Olympiad of 1904 the greatest ever held. The first of these modern Olympiads—which are the reproduction of the famous games of Ancient Greece—was held at Athens in 1896, when an American astonished the world by winning the discus-throwing championship. […] The representatives of athletics in America propose that nothing shall be left undone to make this first American Olympiad a phenomenal success.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1950, “[Athletics] 1950 Varsity”, in Blue and Gold 1950, volume 77, Berkeley, Calif.: Associated Students of the University of California, →OCLC, page 234:", "text": "1950 marks the twilight of one of the greatest eras of California crew history. 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Smith, editor, Army Research and Development, volume 18, number 3, Alexandria, Va.: Development and Engineering Directorate, HQ. U.S. Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29, column 2:", "text": "Selected competitively from more than 400,000 high school students to represent the United States in the 19th International Mathematical Olympiad in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, July 5–6, an 8-man team emerged victorious over teams from 20 other nations. […] Credited with developing the International Mathematics Olympiad in 1959 is Rumania, the winner that year in competition with Bulgaria, Czechosolvakia, Poland, German Democratic Republic, and Soviet Union. […] The idea of a U.S. Mathematical Olympiad was spawned in 1971 when Prof. Nura D. Turner of SUNY (State University of New York), Albany, authored an article in the American Mathematical Monthly that led in 1972 to the USA Mathematical Olympiad.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1978 June, “Olympiad Set for Second Go”, in Bill Amick, editor, American Motorcyclist, volume 32, number 6, Westerville, Oh.: American Motorcyclist Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 34, column 3:", "text": "[…] Kent Howerton led dominance of the initial Motorcycle Olympiad by AMA professional moto-crossers. […] The fans dug it, the bike press agreed, and the Second Annual Motorcycle Olympiad will be held September 16–17 at Saddleback Park in Orange, California. More on the Olympiad in future issues.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1999 December, “Miscellaneous”, in Mahendra Jain, editor, Competition Science Vision, volume 2, number 22, Agra, Uttar Pradesh: Mahendra Jain for M/s Pratiyogita Darpan, →OCLC, page 1266, columns 2–3:", "text": "The Prize distribution ceremony of the First National Science Olympiad was held at National Museum Auditorium, New Delhi on October 18. […] The Second National Science Olympiad will be conducted on 28th January 2000.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2021 July 14, “Second Online Chess Olympiad from August 13, says FIDE”, in The Times of India, Mumbai, Maharashtra: The Times Group, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-08-06:", "text": "The FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2021 will be held between August 13 to September 15, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) announced. Each national federation intending to take part in the Online Olympiad shall confirm its participation by July 31, it said.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "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." ], "links": [ [ "competition", "competition" ], [ "aspiring", "aspiring" ], [ "importance", "importance" ], [ "Olympic Games", "Olympic Games" ], [ "consider", "consider" ], [ "similar", "similar" ], [ "them", "them" ], [ "especially", "especially" ], [ "one", "one" ], [ "occur", "occur" ], [ "4", "4" ], [ "year", "year" ], [ "interval", "interval" ], [ "represent", "represent" ], [ "national", "national" ], [ "international", "international" ], [ "range", "range" ], [ "amateur", "amateur" ], [ "student", 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or modern Olympic Games", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "أُولِمْبْيَاد" }, { "code": "ar", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "ʔūlimbiyya", "sense": "period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "أُولِمْبِيَّة" }, { "code": "hy", "lang": "Armenian", "roman": "ōlimpiada", "sense": "period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games", "word": "օլիմպիադա" }, { "code": "xcl", "lang": "Old Armenian", "roman": "ołompiad", "sense": "period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games", "word": "ողոմպիադ" }, { "code": "ast", "lang": "Asturian", "sense": "period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Olimpiada" }, { "code": "eu", "lang": "Basque", "sense": "period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games", "word": "olinpiada" }, { "code": "br", "lang": "Breton", "sense": "period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games", "word": "Olimpiadenn" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "Olimpiada", "sense": "period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games", "word": "Олимпиада" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "olimpíada" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games", "word": "奧林匹克週期" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "àolínpǐkèzhōuqī, -qí", "sense": "period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games", "word": "奥林匹克周期" }, { "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games", "tags": [ "common-gender" ], "word": "olympiade" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "period between celebrations of the ancient or modern Olympic Games", "word": "olympiade" }, { "code": "eo", "lang": 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