a Panhellenic festival celebrated every other year in ancient Corinth
Isthmian Games in American English
plural noun
one of the great national festivals of ancient Greece, held every two years on the Isthmus of Corinth
Word origin
[1595–1605]This word is first recorded in the period 1595–1605. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: condensation, density, domain, vernacular, zero