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OLYMPICS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Olympics mean?
• OLYMPICS (noun)
The noun OLYMPICS has 1 sense:
1. the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country
Familiarity information: OLYMPICS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
Olympiad; Olympic Games; Olympics
Hypernyms ("Olympics" is a kind of...):
athletic competition; athletic contest; athletics (a contest between athletes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Olympics"):
Winter Olympic Games; Winter Olympics (an Olympics for winter sports)
Context examples
It seems when it comes to your performance, if you had judges like the ones at the Olympics, you’d be getting all perfect 10s!
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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