isthmian games

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   the ancient Panhellenic games held biennially on the Isthmus of Corinth in the first and third years of each Olympiad

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Questions about isthmian games

What does isthmian games mean?

isthmian games means "the ancient Panhellenic games held biennially on the Isthmus of Corinth in the first and third years of each Olympiad".

Is isthmian games a common word?

isthmian games is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.