"-athon" meaning in All languages combined

See -athon on Wiktionary

Suffix [English]

Etymology: Back-formation from marathon. Etymology templates: {{back-form|en|marathon}} Back-formation from marathon Head templates: {{head|en|suffix|cat2=|cat3=|head=|id=}} -athon, {{en-suffix}} -athon
  1. A greatly extended period of any activity, usually for the purpose of fundraising. Tags: morpheme Synonyms: -a-thon, -thon (english: after a vowel)
    Sense id: en--athon-en-suffix-9THvzish Categories (other): English back-formations, English entries with incorrect language header

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for -athon meaning in All languages combined (1.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "marathon"
      },
      "expansion": "Back-formation from marathon",
      "name": "back-form"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from marathon.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "suffix",
        "cat2": "",
        "cat3": "",
        "head": "",
        "id": ""
      },
      "expansion": "-athon",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "-athon",
      "name": "en-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English back-formations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A greatly extended period of any activity, usually for the purpose of fundraising."
      ],
      "id": "en--athon-en-suffix-9THvzish",
      "links": [
        [
          "fundraising",
          "fundraising"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "-a-thon"
        },
        {
          "english": "after a vowel",
          "word": "-thon"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "-athon"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "marathon"
      },
      "expansion": "Back-formation from marathon",
      "name": "back-form"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from marathon.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "suffix",
        "cat2": "",
        "cat3": "",
        "head": "",
        "id": ""
      },
      "expansion": "-athon",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "-athon",
      "name": "en-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English back-formations",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English suffixes"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A greatly extended period of any activity, usually for the purpose of fundraising."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fundraising",
          "fundraising"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "-a-thon"
    },
    {
      "english": "after a vowel",
      "word": "-thon"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-athon"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.