Definitions for Marathon

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Marathon mar·a·thon

Spelling: [mar-uh-thon, -thuh n]

IPA: /ˈmær əˌθɒn, -θən/

Marathon is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 265 anagrams from letters in Marathon (aahmnort).

Definitions for Marathon

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:
4. a plain in SE Greece, in Attica: the Athenians defeated the Persians here 490 b.c.
5. an ancient village that is near this plain.
6. Classical Mythology. a son of Epopeus and the father of Corinthus.

Origin of Marathon

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.

Examples for Marathon

Portlandia marathon—9 am-2:30 pm, IFCBecause what better time than Turkey Day to put on a bird on it?

More probable are smaller attacks like the Boston marathon bombing.

I feel like a two-year-old: I could do a marathon without turning a hair.

Find out why a long distance run is now called a "marathon."

Thanksgiving with Friends marathon—10 am—TBSA marathon of every Thanksgiving episode of Friends.

It would be like making a decision about whether or not to keep exercising at mile 24 of a marathon.

The subject of a dozen-odd panels, commissions, marathon negotiating sessions?

They knew that these were intended to avenge the defeat of marathon.

How long after the battle of marathon, and after the death of Alexander the Great?

I've never heard a word from you since the day we ran the marathon.