Marathon is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MARATHON in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a long-distance race
• a long-distance running race, strictly one of 26 miles 385 yards (42.195 km)
• a long-lasting or difficult task or activity
• long-distance race of 26 miles 385 yards (42.195 kilometres)
• any long and arduous undertaking
• a footrace of 26 miles 385 yards
• a battle in 490 BC in which the Athenians and their allies defeated the Persians
ADJECTIVE:
• of or relating to a race on foot of 26 miles 385 yards (42.195 kilometres)

Words related to MARATHON

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Words that contain MARATHON

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How to use MARATHON in a sentence

• At Marathon, the first in date of the great battles of the world, we beheld Athens struggling for self-preservation against the invading armies of the East.
• Then followed two invasions of Greece itself by the Persians under the generals of Darius, and their defeat at Marathon by Miltiades.
• After leaving Rapthi, keeping Mount Pentilicus on the left, the travellers came in sight of the ever-celebrated Plain of Marathon.
• This was first introduced by Miltiades at Marathon.
• It is reported that flashes from the shields were used to convey news at the battle of Marathon.
• The people, elevated with the late victory at Marathon, thought themselves capable of everything, and the highest respect little enough for them.
• I have seen the plains of Marathon, and these are as fine.
• The disaster of Marathon was repeated on a larger scale, and without the resource of an embarkation.
• And from Eretria they went to Marathon with a like intention, expecting to bind the Athenians in the same yoke of necessity in which they had bound the Eretrians.
• MARATHON RACE A long distance race, held in connection with the Olympic Games and named from a famous event in Greek history.
• The accepted Marathon distance is 26 miles, 385 yards.
• Two other men of high eminence in history, though their renown was achieved at a later period than that of Miltiades, were also among the ten Athenian generals at Marathon.
• A lofty mound was raised on the plain of Marathon, beneath which the remains of the men of Athens who fell in the battle were deposited.
• Miltiades did not live long after his achievement at Marathon, but he lived long enough to experience a lamentable reverse of his popularity and success.
• By a natural blending of patriotic pride with grateful piety, the very spirits of the Athenians who fell at Marathon were deified by their countrymen.
• But, mighty and momentous as these battles were, they rank not with Marathon in importance.
• He ranked the AEacidae among his ancestry, and the blood of Achilles flowed in the veins of the hero of Marathon.
• Frank and his chums had won the relay Marathon and Frank had pitched his cowboy team to victory.
• Duffy was a well-known athlete and had won the Marathon race.
• From the point of view of any sound physiology there is no comparison at all between the absurd strong man and the slight Marathon runner of small muscles but splendid vitality.
• If we go through the military history of modern Europe, we find no example of a Marathon.
• You see, Nick is entered for the Marathon, just the same as a number of other Scranton High boys are.
• There had been more or less talk concerning the advisability of allowing school boys to undertake such a long Marathon race.
• They just enjoyed the excitement, and the honor of being able to say they had once run in a fifteen-mile schoolboy Marathon race.
• Time might come and time might go, but never would those who had been so fortunate as to witness the conclusion of the Marathon forget the thrilling spectacle.
• It would have been like the Greeks losing Marathon or the Saracens winning Tours, supposing the worst consequences ever imagined in those hypothetical cases to have been realized.
• But the Persians, counselled by Hippias, sailed to the bay of Marathon.
• Darius sent an expedition to punish Athens in particular, and the Athenians drove his army into the sea at the battle of Marathon.
• The next day, almost in the spirit of worship, we went to Marathon.
• When Marathon had been fought and Greece kept free, each of the victorious generals voted himself to be first in honor, but all agreed that Miltiades was second.
• The first revolt of the Egyptians against their conquerors, appears to have been provoked by the news of the battle of Marathon.

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