Decathlete
//di-ˈkath-ˌlēt// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An athlete who competes in the decathlon.
"Simply to see what would happen, Paul Terek, a United States decathlete, wore a baseball cap bearing his name in Japanese when he landed at the Osaka airport a few weeks ago. Some children there took the bait."
Example
More examples"Simply to see what would happen, Paul Terek, a United States decathlete, wore a baseball cap bearing his name in Japanese when he landed at the Osaka airport a few weeks ago. Some children there took the bait."
Etymology
From dec- + athlete.
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