Usually means: International competition in various disciplines.
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  1. olympiad: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. olympiad: Merriam-Webster
  3. Olympiad: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Olympiad: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Olympiad: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Olympiad: Vocabulary.com
  7. Olympiad, olympiad: Wordnik
  8. Olympiad, olympiad: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Olympiad, olympiad: Wiktionary
  10. Olympiad: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Olympiad: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. Olympiad: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Olympiad, olympiad: Dictionary.com
  14. olympiad: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Olympiad: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Olympiad: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. olympiad: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Olympiad: Rhymezone
  19. Olympiad: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. olympiad: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. olympiad: FreeDictionary.org
  22. olympiad: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Olympiad: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. olympiad: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. Olympiad: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Olympiad)

noun:  A four-year period, particularly (historical) those based on Hippias's computations of the ancient Olympic Games which placed Coroebus's footrace victory in 776 BCE and (sports) those based on the modern Summer Olympic Games first held in 1896.
noun:  (sports, sometimes proscribed) Synonym of Olympic Games: an instance of the ancient or modern Olympic Games.
noun:  (by extension, usually preceded by descriptive words) A competition aspiring to the importance of the Olympic Games or considered similar to them, especially one occurring at 4-year intervals, representing a national or international range of amateur student rather than professional adult competition, and/or requiring the highest level of ability in the field for success.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Olympiad, q.v. [A four-year period, particularly (historical) those based on Hippias's computations of the ancient Olympic Games which placed Coroebus's footrace victory in 776 BCE and (sports) those based on the modern Summer Olympic Games first held in 1896.]

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