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decathlon
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1912, from deca "ten" (see ten ) + Greek athlon "contest, prize," which is of uncertain origin. A modern Olympic event consisting of 10 challenges.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Anthony Brannen will have to produce another inspired second day performance today to keep his Olympic decathlon hopes alive. ▪ His thoughts had run the gamut during lunch, competing in an emotional decathlon . ▪ It would have ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an athletic contest consisting of ten different events
Usage examples of decathlon.
I assume someone who's won the decathlon in the All-Systems Olympics can do that.
John's only personal encounter with a Hemnoid before this had been at the Interplanetary Olympiad in Brisbane, Australia, the year John had won the decathlon competition.
The Half-Pint—I mean, John Tardy—was a former Olympic decathlon champion.
Then I decided, for like the ten thousandth time, that I was one rotten contradictory fellow, that my talent of dissipation should have long since turned me into a slack, wheezing, puffy ruin, had it not been combined with that iron Calvinistic conscience which, upon noting too much progressive decay, would drive me into the kind of training the decathlon boys seem to enjoy, punishing myself back into the kind of fitness that makes you feel as if no maniac could dent you with a sledge hammer.
The bedroom just fitted the bed, and the rest of the floor was covered with newspapers, dirty underwear, and a couple of Slazenger tennis bags still in their Decathlon sports-shop carrier.
One gold for Jonathan Edwards in the triple jump and a bronze for Dean Macey in the decathlon.