Nemean Games
- noun
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Juegos Nemeos
- Victors in the Nemean Games were awarded crowns made of wild celery.
Examples
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Many athletes traveled long distances to compete in the Nemean Games every other year.
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The ancient Nemean Games were considered one of the four great Panhellenic festivals of Greece.
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The Nemean Games were a significant event in ancient Greece.
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Did you know that the Nemean Games were held every two years?
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Every two years, athletes from across Greece compete in the Nemean Games to showcase their skills.
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In ancient Greece, the Nemean Games were celebrated for honoring Zeus and featured various athletic contests.
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The Nemean Games were one of the four major festivals of ancient Greece, alongside the Olympia, Pythia, and Isthmia.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is a straightforward adjective + noun where 'Nemean' means 'pertaining to Nemea' and 'games' means sporting contests, so the basic idea 'games held at Nemea' is directly derivable from the parts. Specific historical details (periodicity, Panhellenic status) are not predictable, but the core referent — athletic events associated with Nemea — is transparent to a learner who knows the constituents.
Etymology
Nemean Games are named for Nemea, a place in ancient Greece, and one popular story says they began after the hero Heracles killed the Nemean lion. People met there every two years for sports competitions and gave winners crowns of wild celery, so the name now means those sporting festivals held at Nemea.
