-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 money, is reached”: walkathon; readathon .

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Example Sentences

Yes, the grotesque pamper-athon of excess that is the run-up to the Academy Awards is under way.

Together they embarked upon a 10-year, life-changing, mystical globe trot-athon.

When you see the Athon-Rajah coming, throw the first at him.

So she said to him one day, "Are you quite happy here, Athon-Rajah?"

There was an Athon last year who attacked a pehmet with forty men and one hundred and twenty rowers.

Oh no, it would be impossible for them to allow you to become an Athon or a Kohen.

Well, why couldn't I be made an Athon or a Kohen, and be exempted in that way?

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