[uh-lim-pee-ad, oh-lim-] 
) | 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. |
| O·lym·pi·ad (ō-lĭm'pē-ād') n.
[Back-formation from Middle English Olympiades, Olympiads, from Latin Olympias, Olympiad-, Olympiad, from Greek Olumpias, Olumpiad-, from Olumpia, Olympia, Greece, site of the Olympic Games.] |
