marathon

Etymology
From, coined in 1894 by linguist for the first modern time Olympic Games after , a town northeast of Athens. Phidippides the Greek ran the distance from Marathon to Athens to deliver a message regarding the. The modern sport of marathon running is based on a run approximately the same distance. The toponym itself comes from and refers to the prevalence of the plant in the area.

Noun

 * 1) A 42.195-kilometre (26-mile-385-yard) road race.
 * 2)  Any extended or sustained activity.
 * He had a cleaning marathon the night before his girlfriend came over.

Translations

 * Arabic: مَارَاثُون
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: марафо́н
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: марато́н
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: maraton, maratonløb
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: maratono
 * Estonian: maraton
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: მარათონი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: મેરેથોન
 * Hausa: dogon gudu
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: मैराथन
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: Marathon
 * Irish: maratón
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: Marathon
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: maratonas
 * Macedonian: маратон
 * Maltese: maratona
 * Maori: te omaoma-a-Tōhē
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: maraton, maratonløp
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: maraton
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ма̏рато̄н
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: maratón
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: marathoni
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: มาราธอน
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: марафо́н, марато́н
 * Vietnamese:
 * Zhuang: majlahsungh


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Verb

 * 1) To run a marathon.
 * 2)  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.
 * We're going to marathon Star Trek next weekend.

Noun

 * 1) marathon

Etymology
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