Definitions for Olympiad

Olympiad O·lym·pi·ad

Spelling: [uh-lim-pee-ad, oh-lim-]
IPA: /əˈlɪm piˌæd, oʊˈlɪm-/

Olympiad is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 279 anagrams from letters in Olympiad (adilmopy).

Definitions for Olympiad

noun

  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.

Origin of Olympiad

1350-1400; Middle English Latin Olympiad-, stem of Olympias Greek Olympiás noun use of the adj.: of Olympus. See Olympia, -ad1

Examples for Olympiad

And so I say of the Olympiad—'777 years, be the same more or less.'

Monday, July 15, 1912, was the last day of the Fifth Olympiad in Stockholm.

In her final Olympiad, Khorkina was once again a favorite, but lost to Patterson by .176.

Mustering a coalition of disapproval for the World Cup should be much easier than it would be for an Olympiad.

He was born at Stagira, a city of Macedonia, in the first year of the 99th Olympiad.

So far then are they eternal entities, as real to-day as in the first Olympiad.

Timocreon of Rhodes, a comic poet in the 75th Olympiad, was a great drinker.

He died in the first year of the 95th Olympiad, aged seventy.

The Moscow Olympiad in 1980 was boycotted partially, not revoked.

And the prize (after the seventh Olympiad) was a wreath of the wild olive!

Word Value for Olympiad
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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