The name given to the four year period from Olympic Games to Olympic Games; e.g. "In the quadrennium leading up to the Sydney Olympics, the USA women's soccer team was rarely defeated."
Quad*ren"ni*um (?), n. [NL. See Quadrennial.]
A space or period of four years.
© Webster 1913.
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