| 单词 | olympiad era |
| 释义 | > as lemmasOlympiad era 1. Greek History. A period of time (usually four or five years) reckoned from one celebration of the ancient Olympic Games to the next. Later, more widely: a division of time, an era. Also Olympiad era.Originally used by the ancient Greeks as a way of computing time, 776 b.c. being taken as the first year of the first Olympiad. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years hendecadOE a week of yearsa1382 weekc1384 Olympiada1387 lustre1387 yearc1425 millenary1551 prenticeship1553 septenary1576 lustrum1590 quinquennal1590 seventy1590 septimane1603 quinquennie1606 threescore (years) and tena1616 duodecad1621 quinquennium1621 jubilee1643 quadrenniala1646 chiliad1653 septennary1659 septennium1660 triennial1661 millennium1664 tetraëterid1678 octennial1679 duodenary1681 quadrennium1779 septenniad1836 quinquenniad1842 milliad1843 tricentenary1846 triennium1847 vicennium1847 bimillenary1850 lustration1853 sexennium1858 septennate1874 quinquennial1877 pentad1880 sexennate1898 aeon1960 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 277 (MED) Þe Grees bygynneþ þe ȝere wiþ Olympias. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 122v Þe grees..clepid þe firste fiue ȝere þe firste olympias. c1450 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Durh.) iii. 19 (MED) In the yere by computacion Fourty and two of Octouian..and of Olympyades, In the hundred nynty yere and thre. ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Ffii The grekes were wont to reken by Olimpiades, whiche ben four yeres. 1598 G. Chapman in C. Marlowe & G. Chapman Hero & Leander (new ed.) v. sig. K Now was bright Hero weary of the day, Thought an Olympiad in Leanders stay. 1649 Famous Trag. King Charles I iv. 35 Meane men must rise, Every Olympiad of time. a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) i. 22 Let Ephemerides not Olympiads give thee account of his mercies. 1737 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 76/1 And from that Period to the first Olympiad there were 328 years. 1792 R. Bage Man as he Is II. xlviii. 196 I saw the light in the 94th Olympiad, the very day that Alexander the Great won the battle of Arbela. 1819 Ld. Byron Proph. Dante iii. 158 Not Hellas can unroll Through her olympiads two such names. 1876 W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Antiq. 835/1 A new Olympiad aera..came into use under the Roman emperors. 1906 J. London Apostate in When God laughs & Other Stories 810 It marked an era. It was a machine Olympiad, a thing to date from. 1916 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 46 272 Julius Africanus..affirms that the deluge of Ogyges happened just 1,020 years before the first Olympiad. 1997 Hesperia 66 202 The administration of the Olympic Games was reorganized in the 75th Olympiad. < as lemmas |
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