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marathoner
English
Etymology
marathon +? -er
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?mæ.?æ.??n.?(?)/
Noun
marathoner (plural marathoners)
- Someone who participates in a marathon or other long-distance races.
- 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
- She called on all the marathoners to go to Staten Island to help with the clean-up effort and to bring the clothes they would have shed at the start to shelters or other places where displaced people were in need.
- 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
Translations
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marathon
English
Etymology
From French marathon, coined in 1894 by linguist Michel Bréal for the first modern time Olympic Games after Ancient Greek ??????? (Marath?n), a town northeast of Athens. Phidippides the Greek ran the distance from Marathon to Athens to deliver a message regarding the Battle of Marathon. The modern sport of marathon running is based on a run approximately the same distance. The toponym itself comes from ??????? (márathon, “fennel”) and refers to the prevalence of the plant in the area.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?mæ????n/
- (US) IPA(key): /?mæ?????n/, /?m??????n/
- Hyphenation: mar?a?thon
Noun
marathon (plural marathons)
- A 42.195 kilometre (26 mile 385 yard) road race.
- (figuratively, by extension) Any extended or sustained activity.
- He had a cleaning marathon the night before his girlfriend came over.
Derived terms
- -athon
- marathoner
- half marathon
- ultramarathon
Translations
Verb
marathon (third-person singular simple present marathons, present participle marathoning, simple past and past participle marathoned)
- To run a marathon.
- (informal, transitive) To watch or read a large number of instalments of (a film, book, TV series, etc.) in one sitting.
- We're going to marathon Star Trek next weekend.
References
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
marathon m (plural marathons, diminutive marathonnetje n)
- marathon
French
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??????? (Marath?n)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.?a.t??/
Noun
marathon m (plural marathons)
- marathon
Derived terms
- marathonien
Further reading
- “marathon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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