"heptathlon" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /hɛpˈtæθlɒn/ Forms: heptathlons [plural], heptathla [plural]
Etymology: From hepta- + -athlon. Etymology templates: {{af|en|hepta-|-athlon}} hepta- + -athlon Head templates: {{en-noun|+|heptathla}} heptathlon (plural heptathlons or heptathla)
  1. (athletics) An athletic contest comprising seven events; contested mostly by women, for whom this is an Olympic sport. Categories (topical): Athletics, Seven Related terms: heptathlete Translations (athletic contest): седмобой (sedmoboj) [masculine] (Bulgarian), heptatló [masculine] (Catalan), 七項全能 (Chinese Mandarin), 七项全能 (qīxiàng quánnéng) (Chinese Mandarin), sedmiboj [masculine] (Czech), syvkamp [common-gender] (Danish), zevenkamp [masculine] (Dutch), seitsenottelu (Finnish), heptathlon [masculine] (French), Siebenkampf [masculine] (German), hétpróba (Hungarian), sjöþraut [feminine] (Icelandic), eptathlon [masculine] (Italian), eptatlon [masculine] (Italian), heptathlon [masculine] (Italian), 칠종경기 (chiljonggyeonggi) (Korean), седмобој (sedmoboj) [masculine] (Macedonian), хептатлон (heptatlon) [masculine] (Macedonian), sjukamp [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), sjukamp [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), siedmiobój [masculine] (Polish), heptatlo [masculine] (Portuguese), heptatlon [neuter] (Romanian), heptatlón [masculine] (Spanish), sjukamp [common-gender] (Swedish), heptatlon (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.