Synonyms for marathon
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : mar-uh-thon, -thuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmær əˌθɒn, -θən |
Définition of marathon
Origin :- 1896, marathon race, from story of Greek hero Pheidippides, who in 490 B.C.E. 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. The original story (Herodotus) is that he ran from Athens to Sparta to seek aid, which arrived too late 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." Related: Marathoner (by 1912).
- noun long-distance race
- I feel like a two-year-old: I could do a Marathon without turning a hair.
- Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
- Find out why a long distance run is now called a "Marathon."
- Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne
- How long after the battle of Marathon, and after the death of Alexander the Great?
- Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne
- They knew that these were intended to avenge the defeat of Marathon.
- Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
- I've never heard a word from you since the day we ran the Marathon.
- Extract from : « Still Jim » by Honor Willsie Morrow
- It was in the spring of their senior year that Jim and Sara ran the Marathon.
- Extract from : « Still Jim » by Honor Willsie Morrow
- This mound has continued to stand at Marathon to the present day.
- Extract from : « Darius the Great » by Jacob Abbott
- Miltiades found that the fame and honor which he had gained at Marathon were gone.
- Extract from : « Darius the Great » by Jacob Abbott
- He might have been a Marathon athlete, so far as any hint to the contrary went.
- Extract from : « Ted and the Telephone » by Sara Ware Bassett
- Such is the present Marathon—we are summoned back to the past.
- Extract from : « Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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