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mar·a·thon / ˈmarəˌ[unvoicedth]än/ • n. a long-distance running race, strictly one of 26 miles and 385 yards (42.195 km). ∎ a long-lasting or difficult task or operation of a specified kind: the last leg of an interview marathon that began this summer. ∎ [as adj.] of great duration or distance; very long: marathon workdays. DERIVATIVES: mar·a·thon·er n.
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Marathon (mâr´əthŏn), village and plain, ancient Greece, 20 mi (32 km) NE of Athens. Here the Athenians and Plataeans under Miltiades defeated a Persian army in 490 BC (see Persian Wars).
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