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SPECIAL OLYMPICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Special Olympics mean? 

SPECIAL OLYMPICS (noun)
  The noun SPECIAL OLYMPICS has 1 sense:

1. an athletic contest modeled after the Olympic Games but intended for mentally or physically handicapped personsplay

  Familiarity information: SPECIAL OLYMPICS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SPECIAL OLYMPICS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An athletic contest modeled after the Olympic Games but intended for mentally or physically handicapped persons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("Special Olympics" is a kind of...):

athletic competition; athletic contest; athletics (a contest between athletes)


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