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-thon

-thon

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A word ending used to make nouns for long events or competitions to raise money
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: -tón
  • During the read-a-thon, students took turns reading books to raise funds for the library.

It's a tie between Lobster Fest and Toyota Thon.

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Examples

  • I'm going to have to do like a lip Swatch, Swatch A thon for the lip liners as well as all of these shades.

  • And then the last challenge that I finished for a black a Thon was listening to four spoken poetry videos that the host had provided.

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  • Holding Toyota Thon during the sacred high Honda Days.

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  • The charity organized a dance thon to raise money for local schools.

  • She participated in a marathon thon that lasted for 24 hours to help cancer research.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

-Thon comes from the long race marathon, and you can think of it as the idea of a 'long race'. A helpful way to remember -thon is to imagine a 'marathon' of an activity, so a read-thon or dance-thon is a long event or competition often held to raise money.