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marathon | x |

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 a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

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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    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----