Word.ws English Dictionary

Philippides

Philippides is the alternative form of Pheidippides.

Meaning of Pheidippides

Proper noun

Pheidippides

  1. A runner who is said to have ran from Marathon to Athens to deliver to news of the Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon, inspiring the marathon race

Questions about Philippides

What is Philippides the alternative form of?
Philippides is the alternative form of Pheidippides.

Words near Philippides in the dictionary

  1. philippicizes
  2. philippicizing
  3. philippick
  4. philippicks
  5. philippics
  6. Philippides
  7. philippine
  8. Philippine cedar
  9. Philippine cedars
  10. Philippine cobra
  11. Philippine cobras

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Philippides (page history and authors); Pheidippides (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Philippides.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/philippides. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.