Olympiad
suomi-englanti sanakirjaOlympiad englannista suomeksi
Olympialaiset
olympiadi
Substantiivi
Olympiad englanniksi
A four-year period, particularly those based on (w)'s computations of the ancient Games which placed (w)'s footrace victory in (w) (BC) and those based on the modern (w) Games first held in (w).
(ux) to the 38th year before the first Olympiad, the third or fourth year of the sixth Olympiad, the first year of the seventh or eighth Olympiad, or the fourth year of the 12th Olympiad.
(RQ:Marlowe Hero and Leander)
(RQ:Augustine City of God)
(RQ:Raleigh Historie of the World)
(quote-book)|edition=4th|location=London|publisher=(...) James, John, and Paul Knapton,(nb...)|year=1736|section=paragraph 4|pages=64–65|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=yo9unZOxhkYC&pg=RA1-PA64|oclc=1227571405|passage=The moſt Antient and Renowned ''Epoch'' uſed by the Heathens is that of the ''Olympiads'' or ''Olympick Games'', which were inſtituted by one ''Iphitus'', in the Fields of ''Olympia'', a City or Town of the Region ''Elis'' in the ''Peloponneſe''; and which laſt whereof fell on the Full Moon, which was the next after the Summer Solſtice. Theſe Games were celebrated every four Years, ''that is'', there were three Years between the Years wherein the next preceding and the next following ''Olympiad'' was celebrated. Hence by a compleat ''Olympiad'', is denoted the Space of four Years; the Year wherein the ''Olympiad'' was celebrated, being ſtiled the firſt Year of the ſaid ''Olympiad'', and ſo on.
(RQ:London When God Laughs) It marked an era. It was a machine Olympiad, a thing to date from.
(quote-web) The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Japanese government are pressing ahead with the XXXII Olympiad after it was delayed last summer – albeit in a very different manner from usual.
(quote-journal) was caught in a conundrum when it came to wording in his speech in Japanese to declare the 2020 Tokyo Olympics open during the July 23 Opening Ceremony at the National Stadium. (..) The official English version for the Tokyo Olympics was: "I declare open the Games of Tokyo celebrating the 32nd Olympiad of the modern era." (..) Following discussions among central government officials and the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, it was decided to allow Naruhito to use "kinensuru" for celebrating. The term has more of a nuance of marking or commemorating an important occasion.
(ux) only won an olive wreath but were usually freed from paying taxes for the remainder of their life, but modern Olympians have frequently needed to pay taxes on the market value of their gold, silver, or bronze medals.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) S. and J. Sprint, Churchill|Awnsham and John Churchill, Timothy Childe, and Robert Knaplock|year=1707|page=124|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ZsOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA124|oclc=1153729118|passage=It was their the priests of Jupiter Olympius's Buſineſs, alſo not only to regiſter the Names of the Victors in the ſeveral Games, with other Matters relating to them, but alſo whatever occurr'd remarkable, during the Intervals between the Celebration of every ''Olympiad''.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed for the author; and sold by J. Noon,(nb...)|year=1752|volume=III|page=340|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=WzxXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA340|oclc=912719085|passage=''(w)'' (..) makes ''of Elis|Corœbus'' the firſt Victor at the firſt ''Olympiad'' of ''Iphitus''; who, he ſaies, was the Reſtorer of them. This ''Olympiad'' was in the Year before ''Chriſt'' 776.
(RQ:Poe Grotesque) do think it no more than their duty to invest his brows (in addition to the poetic crown) with the wreath of victory in the foot race—a wreath which it is evident he ''must'' obtain at the celebration of the next Olympiad, and which, therefore, they now give him in advance.
(quote-journal)|magazine=Century Magazine|The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Century Company|The Century Co.; London: Publishers|Macmillan & Co. Ltd.|month=November|year=1896|volume=XXXI (New Series; volume LIII overall)|issue=1|page=50|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/century-1897-v-31/page/50/mode/1up|oclc=4279873|passage=After the distribution of the prizes, the athletes formed for the traditional procession around the Stadion. Louës ''i.e.'', (w), the victor of Marathon, came first, bearing the Greek flag; then the Americans, the Hungarians, the French, the Germans. (..) The king announced that the first Olympiad was at an end, and left the Stadion, the band playing the Greek national hymn, and the crowd cheering.
(quote-book) The representatives of athletics in America propose that nothing shall be left undone to make this first American Olympiad a phenomenal success.
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A competition aspiring to the importance of the 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.
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(quote-journal) Credited with developing the International Mathematics Olympiad in 1959 is Rumania, the winner that year in competition with Bulgaria, Czechosolvakia, Poland, German Democratic Republic, and Soviet Union. (..) The idea of a U.S. Mathematical Olympiad was spawned in 1971 when Prof. Nura D. Turner of SUNY (State University of New York), Albany, authored an article in the ''American Mathematical Monthly'' that led in 1972 to the USA Mathematical Olympiad.
(quote-journal) (w) led dominance of the initial Motorcycle Olympiad by AMA professional moto-crossers. (..) The fans dug it, the bike press agreed, and the Second Annual Motorcycle Olympiad will be held September 16–17 at Saddleback Park in Orange, California. More on the Olympiad in future issues.
(quote-journal) The Second National Science Olympiad will be conducted on 28th January 2000.