Winter Olympic Games
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- proper noun
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Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno
- Ironically, Romney, the man behind the successful organization of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, should have known the logistics required to manage an event of such magnitude—that too in the busiest and most populous place in the world.
- Winter Olympic Games 2002
- Winter Olympic Games 2014
- the 16th Winter Olympic Games
Examples
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This is another attempt by Democrats to indict Romney for something that Bain Capital invested in after he left: "By the time Bain Capital had made the investment in Stericycle, he had left the firm to run the 2002 Winter Olympic Games."
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Fans around the globe gathered to celebrate the spirit of sportsmanship during the Winter Olympic Games every four years.
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I had the opportunity to go off and run the Winter Olympic Games.
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After being selected as the site of the 1960 Winter Olympic Games... ... the Squaw Valley Complex was developed... ... into one of the world's greatest ski areas at a cost of over $25 million.
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Klausen, Arne Martin. Olympic Games as Performance and Public Event: The Case of the XVII Winter Olympic Games in Norway. New York: Berghahn Books, 1999.
Academic text (1999) -
Defending Romney, Gingrich said he had ample foreign policy experience from his time as Massachusetts governor, as well as his role in running the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City and living overseas as a missionary.
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The world watched as athletes competed for gold medals at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.
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The 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi featured thrilling events like skiing and figure skating.
Synonyms
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An event where athletes from many countries compete every four years in winter sports like skiing and skating
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning of 'Winter Olympic Games' is directly compositional from 'winter' (the cold season), 'Olympic' (relating to the Olympic movement), and 'games' (sporting contests), so a learner who knows those words can infer it refers to the international multi-sport event held in winter. This construction is cross-linguistically regular (e.g. Spanish 'Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno'), so it will be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Winter Olympic Games combines Winter, meaning 'snow and ice sports', and Olympic Games, a name from the old games at Olympia that inspired the modern Olympics. So, the phrase means a big world sports event for 'snow and ice sports' held 'every four years'.