-athon — [ə thän′] [< (MAR)ATHON] suffix an event marked by length or endurance: used freely to form nonce compounds [walkathon, drinkathon; sale a thon]: also a thon … English World dictionary
Athon — Athon, s. Asplenium … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
athon — [ əθan ] suffix used with some nouns and verbs to make nouns meaning an event or activity that lasts for a long time. These events are often organized in order to make money to help people: walkathon … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
-athon — also thon, suffix denoting prolonged activity and usually some measure of endurance, abstracted from MARATHON (Cf. marathon). E.g. walkathon (1931), skatathon (1933); talkathon (1948); TELETHON (Cf. telethon) (1949) … Etymology dictionary
-athon — suffix forming nouns denoting an action or activity which is carried on for a very long time or on a very large scale, typically to raise funds for charity: a talkathon. Origin on the pattern of (mar)athon … English new terms dictionary
-athon — a suffix indicating an endurance test of a specified kind, as in walkathon, swimathon, often associated with a fundraising campaign as in radiothon, telethon. Also, (following a vowel), thon. {from (mar)athon} …
-athon — noun combining form Etymology: marathon event or activity lasting a long time or involving a great deal of something < talkathon > … New Collegiate Dictionary
-athon — a suffix extracted from marathon, occurring as the final element in compounds which have the general sense an event, as a sale or contest, drawn out to unusual length, often until a prearranged goal, as the contribution of a certain amount of… … Universalium
athon — marathon … Dictionnaire des rimes
-athon — suffix (in nouns) informal an event in which a particular thing is done for a very long time, especially to collect money: a swimathon | a talkathon … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
