Usually means: Ten-event track and field competition.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word decathlon:

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  1. decathlon: Merriam-Webster
  2. decathlon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decathlon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. decathlon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. decathlon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Decathlon, decathlon: Wordnik
  7. decathlon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. decathlon: Wiktionary
  9. decathlon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. decathlon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. decathlon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Decathlon, decathlon: Dictionary.com
  13. decathlon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. decathlon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Decathlon (disambiguation), Decathlon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. decathlon: Rhymezone
  17. decathlon: FreeDictionary.org
  18. decathlon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. decathlon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. decathlon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decathlon: Encyclopedia

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Decathlon: Sports Definitions

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▸ noun:  An athletic contest consisting of ten events which includes sprinting, hurdling, jumping, and throwing over a span of two days.
▸ noun:  A contest in science and math proving skill.

Similar:
octathlon, pentathlon, combined event, duathlon, tetrathlon, discus, triathlon, quadrathlon, discus throw, track event, more...

Opposite:
monathlon, unathlon, unisport event

Types:
100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, 110m hurdles, long jump, triple jump, shot put, more...

Phrases:
Decathlon world record progression, American Champion Decathlon, United States Academic Decathlon, Decathlon scoring tables, more...

Adjectives:
olympic, first, academic, event, grueling, modern

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Similar:
octathlon, pentathlon, combined event, duathlon, tetrathlon, discus, triathlon, quadrathlon, discus throw, track event, more...

Opposite:
monathlon, unathlon, unisport event

Types:
100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, 110m hurdles, long jump, triple jump, shot put, more...

Phrases:
Decathlon world record progression, American Champion Decathlon, United States Academic Decathlon, Decathlon scoring tables, more...

Adjectives:
olympic, first, academic, event, grueling, modern

Colors:
    blue,     red,     yellow,     green,     black, more...



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