Pythian Games

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plural noun

one of the great national festivals of ancient Greece, held every four years at Delphi in honor of Apollo.

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Origin of Pythian Games

First recorded in 1595–1605

Words nearby Pythian Games

Pythagorean theorem, Pytheas, Pythia, Pythiad, Pythian, Pythian Games, Pythias, pythogenic, python, Pythonesque, pythoness

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How to use Pythian Games in a sentence

We add them to our games because we see other developers add them to their games.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art|Alec Kubas-Meyer|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“I sense that mobile games are starting to shed their skin, getting rid of all the dead things they carry around,” he says.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art|Alec Kubas-Meyer|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
These “free” games display ads, often in obnoxious places, in lieu of the entry fee.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art|Alec Kubas-Meyer|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Forget those silly “games played with the ball”; they are far “too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.”
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He grew up both a computer geek in the early days of video games and an avid record collector.
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Children freshly befurbelowed, were gathering for their games under the oaks.
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They take him along whenever they play games, thinking the mascot helps them to win.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
Because they used a heavier ball, roulette looked about the same as on Earth, and the same went for the dice games.
Fee of the Frontier|Horace Brown Fyfe
I fear, Sir,' she replied, 'we have been made King and Queen after the fashion of children in summer games.'
King Robert the Bruce|A. F. Murison
We ought to beat hershell get too uppity to live with, declared Bobby, discussing these games.
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British Dictionary definitions for Pythian Games

Pythian Games

pl n

(in ancient Greece) the second most important Panhellenic festival, celebrated in the third year of each Olympiad near Delphi. The four-year period between celebrations was known as a Pythiad (ˈpɪθɪˌæd)

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