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criterium

UK/kɹaɪˈtɪəɹiəm/US/kɹaɪˈtɪəɹiəm/
nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: criteria, criteriums

A criterium is a race of many laps round a short town circuit. Win a criterium.

The corners decide it, since anybody who brakes badly loses the wheel in front. A criterium is easy to watch, which is why towns put them on.

Furmanj at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0

Definitions of criterium

  1. 1nouncriteriumA race of many laps round a short town circuit.C2

    “The criterium was sixty laps of a square kilometre.”

criterium is a race.

Where it comes from

French criterium, from Greek kriterion, a means of judging.

  1. Ancient Greek

    κριτήριον

  2. Latin

    critērium

  3. French

    critérium — competition

  4. English, today

    criterium

From French critérium (“competition”), from Latin critērium, from Ancient Greek κριτήριον.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Cycling

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criterium in the wild

  • Between 1980 and 2002 it was a criterium.

    Polynormande

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.