marathon

See also: Marathon

English[edit]

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marathon

Etymology[edit]

From French marathon, coined in 1894 by linguist Michel Bréal for the first modern time Olympic Games after Ancient Greek Μαραθών (Marathṓn), 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 μάραθον (márathon, “fennel”) and refers to the prevalence of the plant in the area.^[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmæɹəθən/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæɹəˌθɑn/, /ˈmɛɹəˌθɑn/
Audio (UK) (file)
Hyphenation: mar‧a‧thon

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

Translations[edit]

road race

Arabic: مَارَاثُون‎ m (mārāṯūn)
Armenian: մարաթոն (hy) (maratʿon)
Belarusian: марафо́н m (marafón)
Bengali: ম্যারাথন (mjarathôn)
Bulgarian: марато́н m (maratón)
Burmese: မာရသွန် (my) (mara.swan)
Catalan: marató (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 馬拉松 (zh), 马拉松 (zh) (mǎlāsōng)
Czech: maraton (cs) m
Danish: maraton n or c, maratonløb n
Dutch: marathon (nl) m
Esperanto: maratono
Estonian: maraton
Finnish: maraton (fi)
French: marathon (fr) m
Georgian: მარათონი (maratoni)
German: Marathon (de) m
Greek: μαραθώνιος (el) m (marathónios)
Gujarati: મેરેથોન (merethon)
Hausa: dogon gudu
Hebrew: מָרָתוֹן‎ (he) m (maraton)
Hindi: मैराथन m (mairāthan)
Hungarian: maraton (hu)
Icelandic: maraþonhlaup (is) n, maraþon (is) n
Ido: maratono (io)
Interlingua: Marathon

Irish: maratón m
Italian: maratona (it) f
Japanese: マラソン (ja) (marason)
Korean: 마라톤 (ko) (maraton)
Latin: Marathon
Latvian: maratons m
Lithuanian: maratonas m
Macedonian: маратон m (maraton)
Maltese: maratona f
Maori: te omaoma-a-Tōhē
Norwegian:
Bokmål: maraton n, maratonløp n
Polish: maraton (pl) m
Portuguese: maratona (pt) f
Romanian: maraton (ro)
Russian: марафо́н (ru) m (marafón)
Scottish Gaelic: maraton m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ма̏рато̄н m

Roman: mȁratōn (sh) m
Slovak: maratón m
Slovene: maraton (sl)
Spanish: maratón (es) m or f
Swahili: marathoni
Swedish: maraton (sv) n, maratonlopp (sv) n
Thai: มาราธอน (maa-raa-tɔn)
Turkish: maraton (tr)
Ukrainian: марафо́н m (marafón)
Vietnamese: ma-ra-tông (vi)
Zhuang: majlahsungh

any extended or sustained activity

Catalan: marató (ca) f
Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} maratono
Finnish: maraton (fi)
French: marathon (fr) m
German: Marathon (de) m
Greek: μαραθώνιος (el) m (marathónios)

Hungarian: maraton (hu)
Polish: maraton (pl) m
Romanian: maraton (ro)
Russian: марафо́н (ru) m (marafón)
Spanish: maratón (es) m or f

Verb[edit]

marathon (third-person singular simple present marathons, present participle marathoning, simple past and past participle marathoned)

To run a marathon.
- 2015 August 1, “‘I was cross that my child had to beg the prime minister for a drug’”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:
  In less than two years, they and their family and friends have skydived, marathoned, tray-baked and dinner-danced their way to £130,000 for Duchenne research through their help4harry campaign.
(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.