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

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.”
Forget the Resolutions; Try a Few Declarations|Kevin Bleyer|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST

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.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
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.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage|Gertrude W. Morrison

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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