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Definition of Pentathlete
1. Noun. An athlete who competes in a pentathlon.
Definition of Pentathlete
1. Noun. (athletics) An athlete who competes in the pentathlon ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pentathlete
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentathlete
Literary usage of Pentathlete
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art by Walter Woodburn Hyde (1921)
"We shall next consider in some detail how the pentathlete may have been represented
at Olympia in the three characteristic contests of jumping, ..."
2. Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture: A Series of Essays on the History of Art by Adolf Furtwängler (1895)
"In the relief the athlete is further characterized as a pentathlete by the 1 This
broken surface occurs both on the ..."
3. The British poets, including translations by British poets (1822)
"What made it so extraordinary for the pentathlete ... any one of the gymnastic
exercises; which care the pentathlete was obliged to divide amongst so many. ..."
4. The Odes of Pindar in English Prose by Pindar, Gilbert West (1824)
"The reason is, that the regimen of a pentathlete, as both Epictetus and his
disciple Arrian inform us, was very different from that of an athlete, ..."
5. Longinus On the Sublime: The Greek Text Edited After the Paris Manuscript by Longinus, William Rhys Roberts (1899)
"... accents than Demosthenes and a greater number of excellences, and like the
pentathlete he falls just below the top in every branch. ..."
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