olympiad

English Thesaurus

1. the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country (noun.event)

hypernym	:	athletic competition, athletic contest, athletics,
definition	:	a contest between athletes (noun.event)

hyponym	:	winter olympic games, winter olympics,
definition	:	an Olympics for winter sports (noun.event)

2. one of the four-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC (noun.time)

hypernym	:	period, period of time, time period,
definition	:	an amount of time (noun.time)