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half-marathon

half-marathon is the alternative form of half marathon.

Meaning of half marathon

Noun

half marathon (plural half marathons)

  1. A running race over the distance of 21.0975 km, half the length of a marathon.

Forms of half-marathon

pluralhalf-marathons

Origin of half-marathon

From half- + marathon.

Questions about half-marathon

What is half-marathon the alternative form of?
Half-marathon is the alternative form of half marathon.

Words near half-marathon in the dictionary

  1. half-lives
  2. half-long
  3. half-long vowel
  4. half-long vowels
  5. half-longs
  6. half-marathon
  7. half-marathoner
  8. half-marathoners
  9. half-marathons
  10. half-marrow
  11. half-marrows

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Adapted from Wiktionary: half-marathon (page history and authors); half marathon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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