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Marathon vs Marathonlike - What's the difference?

marathon | marathonlike |

As a proper noun marathon

is a town in attica, greece, the site of the victory in 490 bc of heavily outnumbered athenians against persians.

As an adjective marathonlike is

resembling or characteristic of a marathon.

marathon

English

(wikipedia marathon)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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

    * marathoner * half marathon * ultramarathon

    References

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    marathonlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling or characteristic of a marathon.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=February 17, author=Nick Kaye And Hilary Howard, title=Long Cruises: Too Much of a Good Thing?, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Some are short and to the point, like 10Ks, and some are mileage-heavy, requiring a marathonlike time commitment. }}