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the Olympic Games

 
/əˈlɪmpɪkˌgeɪmz/ noun [plural] ( also the Olympics)

Translation

an international sports competition that happens every four years
Olimpiyat Oyunları
1474
Olympic adjective [always before noun] relating to the Olympic Games
Olimpik, olimpik oyunlarla ilgili
She broke the Olympic record.1474
(Definition of the Olympic Games noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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