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noun
1.
a foot race over a course measuring 26 mi. 385 yards (42 km 195 meters).
2.
any long-distance race.
3.
any contest, event, or the like, of great, or greater than normal, length or duration or requiring exceptional endurance: a dance marathon; a sales marathon.
Origin:
1895–1900; allusion to Pheidippides' 26-mi. (42-km) run from Marathon to Athens to carry news of the Greek victory over the Persians in 490 b.c.
1895–1900; allusion to Pheidippides' 26-mi. (42-km) run from Marathon to Athens to carry news of the Greek victory over the Persians in 490 b.c.
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Marathon
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Example Sentences
- Marathon has lost its industry but found new life as a quiet but thriving second-home community.
- In one marathon flurry of cleared wickets and roquets.
- Untamed, the buildings would force viewers into a monotonous marathon of spectatorship.
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marathon
1896, marathon race, from story of Gk. hero Pheidippides, who ran the 26 miles and 385 yards to Athens from the Plains of Marathon to tell of the allied Greek victory there over Persian army, 490 B.C.E. The original story (Herodotus) is that he ran from Athens to Sparta to seek aid, which arrived too
EXPANDlate to participate in the battle. Introduced as an athletic event in the 1896 revival of the Olympic Games, based on a later, less likely story, and quickly extended to mean "any very long event or activity."
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