Definition of "olympiad" []

• Alternative capitalization of Olympiad (noun)

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• "She describes the bitter disappointment she felt as a middle-schooler after placing first in an Arabic language olympiad -- only to be barred from the next, nationwide round."
• "Bobby Fischer created the "game of the century" in 1956 against Donald Byrne and he almost beat the world champion Mikhail Botvinnik at the 1962 olympiad in Varna, Bulgaria, with the Grunfeld defense."
• "At the chess olympiad in Buenos Aires in 1978, Donner lost to a Chinese master Liu Wenzhe."