an athlete who takes part in or trains chiefly for a decathlon
Word origin
[1965–70; b. decathlon and athlete]This word is first recorded in the period 1965–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Coriolis effect, T cell, double-book, hired gun, stun gun
Examples of 'decathlete' in a sentence
decathlete
Nearing fifty, he still had the body of the trained olympic decathlete he had been almost twenty-five years before.
Bart Davis DESTROY THE KENTUCKY (1992)
A former decathlete, he is multitasking manna from heaven for those dulled by anodyne interviews.