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Olympic Games
noun
Olympic Games
also
Olympics
[
plural
]
DS
the Olympic Games/the Olympics
an international sports event held every four years in different countries
:
the 1976 Olympic Games
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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