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单词 Olympiad
释义 Olympiad
 —Olympiadic,  adj.  
 /euh lim"pee ad', oh lim"-/,  n.   (often l.c.)
  1. a period of four years reckoned from one celebration of the Olympic Games to the next, by which the Greeks computed time from 776 B.C.
  2. a celebration of the modern Olympic Games.
 [1350-1400; ME < L Olympiad-, s. of Olympias < Gk Olympiás n. use of the adj.: of Olympus. See OLYMPIA, -AD1]
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