Definition of marathon in English:

marathon

noun ˈmarəθ(ə)nˈmɛrəˌθɑn

1A long-distance running race, strictly one of 26 miles 385 yards (42.195 km)
I was due to run the marathon the next day
as modifier a marathon runner
Example sentencesExamples
- She just stared ahead and nodded a bit and laughed in that way you do when you've just run 21 miles of a marathon.
- His plan had always been to retire from the track after Athens to concentrate on half-marathons and marathons.
- With six marathons and hundreds of miles' running training behind him, his knees gave up way before his will, so he became a cyclist.
- For the next two decades, he routinely ran six miles a day and completed several 26-mile marathons.
- Philip's mother competes in marathons and his father races sailboats
- From that point on her focus had been on the Olympic marathon, for which she started a red-hot favourite.
- Of course, many people who train successfully for marathons or long-distance triathlons never get sick.
- He has completed more than 200 road races, including 21 marathons and five ultra-marathons.
- She leads the world in that event as clearly as she did in the marathon before Sunday.
- I'm talking about half marathons, not marathons.
- She swapped track for road, became a marathon runner, ran three marathons and won the lot.
- Before the 1970s only highly trained athletes ran more than 5 miles, then along came jogging and now ordinary people commonly run marathons of 26 miles.
- The training has in many ways been harder, if more varied, than for a marathon.
- Yet this woman managed to run not just any race, but the marathon, and won the gold.
- But don't read too much into the results just yet - it's rarely safe to name the winner of a marathon in the first mile.
- And she is also not expected to run in either the Chicago or New York marathons in November.
- After studying the organisation and finances of both the New York and Boston marathons, Brasher put together a budget for a similar race in London, and was given a cautious green light by the authorities.
- Radcliffe has raced three marathons and won all three.
- A full marathon would require me to run all the way back to Roehampton and almost all the way home again.
- All modern marathons have been 26 miles 385 yards long ever since.
Synonyms
prolonged, extended, stretched out, drawn out, long-drawn-out, lengthened, lengthy, long, overlong, dragged out, spun out, strung out, sustained, marathon
1. 1.1 A long-lasting or difficult task or activity.
  the last leg of an interview marathon which began this summer
  as modifier she's embarking on a marathon UK tour
  Example sentencesExamples
  But it soon turns into a nasty special effects marathon in which a story is the first sacrifice.
  The finest piece of batsmanship in this marathon came at the denouement.
  The 2004 Grammy marathon is off to a good start with a wildly diverse pool of nominees.
  In a three game marathon, it took all the skill and experience to overcome Dominic Sheridan of Cavan.
  Once when I was in college I decided to do a fortnight computer games marathon.
  The BBC is planning to embark upon a similar marathon to choose the nation's favourite books.
  Her tour of broadcasting studios last week was a self-advertising marathon.
  When I got there, though, the marathon of confusion began: The symptoms kept changing but not the effect.
  Never in this marathon did Kerry himself do anything to change the campaign's dynamics.
  The replacement iPod mini finally arrived yesterday concluding a six week marathon without any mobile music.
  Of course, there was harm done in that twenty-four hour unicycling marathon that took him to the world record.
  He begins a marathon of jokes and cynicism about the identity of Hero's parentage.
  She embarks on TV marathons where the set is fixed at volumes making sure none would sleep.
  The holiday season is merely your warm-up to that marathon known as tax season.
  On Sunday March 10, there will be a 12 hour disco marathon for badly needed club funds.

Derivatives

marathoner

noun

More important, the film personalized the athletes: the glint of confidence on Owens' face, the exhaustion of the marathoners as each painful step leads toward the stadium.
Example sentencesExamples
- Last year, 12,000 to 15,000 people finished an ultra in the U.S., compared with some 150,000 triathletes and 423,000 marathoners.
- The 25th anniversary marathon attracted a record 11,276 runners, including 1,175 marathoners who completed the full 26.2 miles.
- The engineered mice racing away on their treadmills are bound to add to the furor over performance-enhancing substances, just as the world's best marathoners prepare for the Olympic event Sunday.
- I know many marathoners who could only train in a disembodied state, and today they are facing total hip and knee replacements because they trained their minds to check out, disengage, and ignore discomfort and repetitive shock.

Origin

Late 19th century: from Marathōn in Greece, the scene of a victory over the Persians in 490 bc; the modern race is based on the tradition that a messenger ran from Marathon to Athens (22 miles) with the news. The original account by Herodotus told of the messenger Pheidippides running 150 miles from Athens to Sparta before the battle, seeking help.

In 490 bc the Athenians won a victory over an invading Persian army at Marathon on the coast of Attica in eastern Greece. The Greek historian Herodotus described how the herald Pheidippides ran the 150 miles from Athens to Sparta to get help before the battle. According to a later tradition a messenger ran from Marathon to Athens, a distance of 22 miles, with news of the victory, but fell dead on arrival. The first modern Olympic games in 1896 instituted the marathon as a long-distance race—fortunately for competitors, based on the shorter version of the story.

Definition of marathon in US English:

marathon

nounˈmerəˌTHänˈmɛrəˌθɑn

1A long-distance running race, strictly one of 26 miles 385 yards (42.195 km).
Example sentencesExamples
- Before the 1970s only highly trained athletes ran more than 5 miles, then along came jogging and now ordinary people commonly run marathons of 26 miles.
- She swapped track for road, became a marathon runner, ran three marathons and won the lot.
- But don't read too much into the results just yet - it's rarely safe to name the winner of a marathon in the first mile.
- He has completed more than 200 road races, including 21 marathons and five ultra-marathons.
- From that point on her focus had been on the Olympic marathon, for which she started a red-hot favourite.
- A full marathon would require me to run all the way back to Roehampton and almost all the way home again.
- After studying the organisation and finances of both the New York and Boston marathons, Brasher put together a budget for a similar race in London, and was given a cautious green light by the authorities.
- Of course, many people who train successfully for marathons or long-distance triathlons never get sick.
- Yet this woman managed to run not just any race, but the marathon, and won the gold.
- Radcliffe has raced three marathons and won all three.
- Philip's mother competes in marathons and his father races sailboats
- She just stared ahead and nodded a bit and laughed in that way you do when you've just run 21 miles of a marathon.
- I'm talking about half marathons, not marathons.
- All modern marathons have been 26 miles 385 yards long ever since.
- For the next two decades, he routinely ran six miles a day and completed several 26-mile marathons.
- And she is also not expected to run in either the Chicago or New York marathons in November.
- The training has in many ways been harder, if more varied, than for a marathon.
- She leads the world in that event as clearly as she did in the marathon before Sunday.
- With six marathons and hundreds of miles' running training behind him, his knees gave up way before his will, so he became a cyclist.
- His plan had always been to retire from the track after Athens to concentrate on half-marathons and marathons.
Synonyms
prolonged, extended, stretched out, drawn out, long-drawn-out, lengthened, lengthy, long, overlong, dragged out, spun out, strung out, sustained, marathon
1. 1.1 A long-lasting or difficult task or operation of a specified kind.
  the last leg of an interview marathon that began this summer
  as modifier marathon workdays
  Example sentencesExamples
  The 2004 Grammy marathon is off to a good start with a wildly diverse pool of nominees.
  The holiday season is merely your warm-up to that marathon known as tax season.
  Her tour of broadcasting studios last week was a self-advertising marathon.
  The replacement iPod mini finally arrived yesterday concluding a six week marathon without any mobile music.
  On Sunday March 10, there will be a 12 hour disco marathon for badly needed club funds.
  Never in this marathon did Kerry himself do anything to change the campaign's dynamics.
  The finest piece of batsmanship in this marathon came at the denouement.
  But it soon turns into a nasty special effects marathon in which a story is the first sacrifice.
  The BBC is planning to embark upon a similar marathon to choose the nation's favourite books.
  She embarks on TV marathons where the set is fixed at volumes making sure none would sleep.
  He begins a marathon of jokes and cynicism about the identity of Hero's parentage.
  When I got there, though, the marathon of confusion began: The symptoms kept changing but not the effect.
  Once when I was in college I decided to do a fortnight computer games marathon.
  Of course, there was harm done in that twenty-four hour unicycling marathon that took him to the world record.
  In a three game marathon, it took all the skill and experience to overcome Dominic Sheridan of Cavan.

Origin

Late 19th century: from Marathōn in Greece, the scene of a victory over the Persians in 490 BC; the modern race is based on the tradition that a messenger ran from Marathon to Athens (22 miles) with the news. The original account by Herodotus told of the messenger Pheidippides running 150 miles from Athens to Sparta before the battle, seeking help.

单词	marathon
释义	Definition of marathon in English: marathon noun ˈmarəθ(ə)nˈmɛrəˌθɑn 1A long-distance running race, strictly one of 26 miles 385 yards (42.195 km) I was due to run the marathon the next day as modifier a marathon runner Example sentencesExamples She just stared ahead and nodded a bit and laughed in that way you do when you've just run 21 miles of a marathon. His plan had always been to retire from the track after Athens to concentrate on half-marathons and marathons. With six marathons and hundreds of miles' running training behind him, his knees gave up way before his will, so he became a cyclist. For the next two decades, he routinely ran six miles a day and completed several 26-mile marathons. Philip's mother competes in marathons and his father races sailboats From that point on her focus had been on the Olympic marathon, for which she started a red-hot favourite. Of course, many people who train successfully for marathons or long-distance triathlons never get sick. He has completed more than 200 road races, including 21 marathons and five ultra-marathons. She leads the world in that event as clearly as she did in the marathon before Sunday. I'm talking about half marathons, not marathons. She swapped track for road, became a marathon runner, ran three marathons and won the lot. Before the 1970s only highly trained athletes ran more than 5 miles, then along came jogging and now ordinary people commonly run marathons of 26 miles. The training has in many ways been harder, if more varied, than for a marathon. Yet this woman managed to run not just any race, but the marathon, and won the gold. But don't read too much into the results just yet - it's rarely safe to name the winner of a marathon in the first mile. And she is also not expected to run in either the Chicago or New York marathons in November. After studying the organisation and finances of both the New York and Boston marathons, Brasher put together a budget for a similar race in London, and was given a cautious green light by the authorities. Radcliffe has raced three marathons and won all three. A full marathon would require me to run all the way back to Roehampton and almost all the way home again. All modern marathons have been 26 miles 385 yards long ever since. Synonyms prolonged, extended, stretched out, drawn out, long-drawn-out, lengthened, lengthy, long, overlong, dragged out, spun out, strung out, sustained, marathon 1.1 A long-lasting or difficult task or activity. the last leg of an interview marathon which began this summer as modifier she's embarking on a marathon UK tour Example sentencesExamples But it soon turns into a nasty special effects marathon in which a story is the first sacrifice. The finest piece of batsmanship in this marathon came at the denouement. The 2004 Grammy marathon is off to a good start with a wildly diverse pool of nominees. In a three game marathon, it took all the skill and experience to overcome Dominic Sheridan of Cavan. Once when I was in college I decided to do a fortnight computer games marathon. The BBC is planning to embark upon a similar marathon to choose the nation's favourite books. Her tour of broadcasting studios last week was a self-advertising marathon. When I got there, though, the marathon of confusion began: The symptoms kept changing but not the effect. Never in this marathon did Kerry himself do anything to change the campaign's dynamics. The replacement iPod mini finally arrived yesterday concluding a six week marathon without any mobile music. Of course, there was harm done in that twenty-four hour unicycling marathon that took him to the world record. He begins a marathon of jokes and cynicism about the identity of Hero's parentage. She embarks on TV marathons where the set is fixed at volumes making sure none would sleep. The holiday season is merely your warm-up to that marathon known as tax season. On Sunday March 10, there will be a 12 hour disco marathon for badly needed club funds. Derivatives marathoner noun More important, the film personalized the athletes: the glint of confidence on Owens' face, the exhaustion of the marathoners as each painful step leads toward the stadium. Example sentencesExamples Last year, 12,000 to 15,000 people finished an ultra in the U.S., compared with some 150,000 triathletes and 423,000 marathoners. The 25th anniversary marathon attracted a record 11,276 runners, including 1,175 marathoners who completed the full 26.2 miles. The engineered mice racing away on their treadmills are bound to add to the furor over performance-enhancing substances, just as the world's best marathoners prepare for the Olympic event Sunday. I know many marathoners who could only train in a disembodied state, and today they are facing total hip and knee replacements because they trained their minds to check out, disengage, and ignore discomfort and repetitive shock. Origin Late 19th century: from Marathōn in Greece, the scene of a victory over the Persians in 490 bc; the modern race is based on the tradition that a messenger ran from Marathon to Athens (22 miles) with the news. The original account by Herodotus told of the messenger Pheidippides running 150 miles from Athens to Sparta before the battle, seeking help. In 490 bc the Athenians won a victory over an invading Persian army at Marathon on the coast of Attica in eastern Greece. The Greek historian Herodotus described how the herald Pheidippides ran the 150 miles from Athens to Sparta to get help before the battle. According to a later tradition a messenger ran from Marathon to Athens, a distance of 22 miles, with news of the victory, but fell dead on arrival. The first modern Olympic games in 1896 instituted the marathon as a long-distance race—fortunately for competitors, based on the shorter version of the story. Definition of marathon in US English: marathon nounˈmerəˌTHänˈmɛrəˌθɑn 1A long-distance running race, strictly one of 26 miles 385 yards (42.195 km). Example sentencesExamples Before the 1970s only highly trained athletes ran more than 5 miles, then along came jogging and now ordinary people commonly run marathons of 26 miles. She swapped track for road, became a marathon runner, ran three marathons and won the lot. But don't read too much into the results just yet - it's rarely safe to name the winner of a marathon in the first mile. He has completed more than 200 road races, including 21 marathons and five ultra-marathons. From that point on her focus had been on the Olympic marathon, for which she started a red-hot favourite. A full marathon would require me to run all the way back to Roehampton and almost all the way home again. After studying the organisation and finances of both the New York and Boston marathons, Brasher put together a budget for a similar race in London, and was given a cautious green light by the authorities. Of course, many people who train successfully for marathons or long-distance triathlons never get sick. Yet this woman managed to run not just any race, but the marathon, and won the gold. Radcliffe has raced three marathons and won all three. Philip's mother competes in marathons and his father races sailboats She just stared ahead and nodded a bit and laughed in that way you do when you've just run 21 miles of a marathon. I'm talking about half marathons, not marathons. All modern marathons have been 26 miles 385 yards long ever since. For the next two decades, he routinely ran six miles a day and completed several 26-mile marathons. And she is also not expected to run in either the Chicago or New York marathons in November. The training has in many ways been harder, if more varied, than for a marathon. She leads the world in that event as clearly as she did in the marathon before Sunday. With six marathons and hundreds of miles' running training behind him, his knees gave up way before his will, so he became a cyclist. His plan had always been to retire from the track after Athens to concentrate on half-marathons and marathons. Synonyms prolonged, extended, stretched out, drawn out, long-drawn-out, lengthened, lengthy, long, overlong, dragged out, spun out, strung out, sustained, marathon 1.1 A long-lasting or difficult task or operation of a specified kind. the last leg of an interview marathon that began this summer as modifier marathon workdays Example sentencesExamples The 2004 Grammy marathon is off to a good start with a wildly diverse pool of nominees. The holiday season is merely your warm-up to that marathon known as tax season. Her tour of broadcasting studios last week was a self-advertising marathon. The replacement iPod mini finally arrived yesterday concluding a six week marathon without any mobile music. On Sunday March 10, there will be a 12 hour disco marathon for badly needed club funds. Never in this marathon did Kerry himself do anything to change the campaign's dynamics. The finest piece of batsmanship in this marathon came at the denouement. But it soon turns into a nasty special effects marathon in which a story is the first sacrifice. The BBC is planning to embark upon a similar marathon to choose the nation's favourite books. She embarks on TV marathons where the set is fixed at volumes making sure none would sleep. He begins a marathon of jokes and cynicism about the identity of Hero's parentage. When I got there, though, the marathon of confusion began: The symptoms kept changing but not the effect. Once when I was in college I decided to do a fortnight computer games marathon. Of course, there was harm done in that twenty-four hour unicycling marathon that took him to the world record. In a three game marathon, it took all the skill and experience to overcome Dominic Sheridan of Cavan. Origin Late 19th century: from Marathōn in Greece, the scene of a victory over the Persians in 490 BC; the modern race is based on the tradition that a messenger ran from Marathon to Athens (22 miles) with the news. The original account by Herodotus told of the messenger Pheidippides running 150 miles from Athens to Sparta before the battle, seeking help.
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