Term: olympiad: one of the four-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC
Broader: time period: an amount of time | Unrelated: palmyra: tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving
Broader: time period: an amount of time | Unrelated: covered smut: a smut fungus causing a smut disease of grains in which the spore masses are covered or held together by the grain membranes
Broader: time period: an amount of time | Unrelated: address: the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with
Broader: time period: an amount of time | Unrelated: algarroba: mesquite pod used in tanning and dyeing
Broader: time period: an amount of time | Unrelated: neutralization: action intended to keep a country politically neutral or exclude it from a possible war
Broader: time period: an amount of time | Unrelated: theology: the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth
Broader: time period: an amount of time | Unrelated: lieutenant: an officer in a police force
Broader: time period: an amount of time | Unrelated: purification: the act of purging of sin or guilt; moral or spiritual cleansing
Broader: time period: an amount of time | Unrelated: conservative judaism: Jews who keep some of the requirements of the Mosaic law but allow for adaptation of other requirements (as some of the dietary laws) to fit modern circumstances
Broader: time period: an amount of time | Unrelated: diffraction grating: optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum