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# olympiad

«olympiad» in Mova's school dictionary: **a contest where pupils solve hard problems, for example…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (olympiad, olympiads)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An olympiad is a contest where pupils solve hard problems, for example in maths, physics or chess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olympiad/#m1)

2) An Olympiad is also the four years between Olympic Games, or the Olympic Games themselves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olympiad/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a contest: problems, points, places and pupils taking part; in school: maths olympiads, science olympiads; in history: the ancient Greeks counted time in olympiads of four years

### examples

- 24 pupils took part in the olympiad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olympiad/#x1)
- The olympiad has 6 problems. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olympiad/#x2)
- She scored 35 points at the olympiad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olympiad/#x3)
- Each problem is worth 7 points. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olympiad/#x4)
- Our school won two medals at the maths olympiad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olympiad/#x5)
- He practised old olympiad problems every evening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olympiad/#x6)
- The chess olympiad brings together teams from many countries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olympiad/#x7)
- An olympiad in ancient Greece lasted four years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olympiad/#x8)

### note

Story word; olympiad problems often hide a trick, so read every word. Full marks = problems × points each (6 × 7 = 42). Comes from «Olympic».

### In the corpora

- [Every olympiad number puzzle gets easier if you write the digits first, then the words.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/37-olympiad-number-word-puzzles/15/)
- [Films, cartoons and games are full of them, and spotting them is a favourite olympiad puzzle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/1/)
- [The olympiad pupil keeps the fact and throws away the moan.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles/4/)
- [An ethics olympiad is a competition where school teams discuss real dilemmas.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/36-what-is-an-ethics-olympiad/7/)
- [A strong olympiad answer often looks at rules, results and character together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «olympiad» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olympiad/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.