olympiad

Other forms of olympiad

plural

olympiads·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about olympiad

What does olympiad mean?

olympiad means "one of the four-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in olympiad?

olympiad has 4 syllables: o-lym-pi-ad. The stress falls on "lym". In IPA it is /oʊˈlɪmpiˌæd/.

What is another word for olympiad?

Close synonyms include Olympic Games, Olympics. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is olympiad a common word?

olympiad is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with olympiad?

5 words rhyme with olympiad. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.