telethon

Definitions

• A lengthy television program to raise funds for a charity. noun  …☝️ Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition  (view on wordnik.com)
• An event that brings in people to donate money through the phone via the television (TV). noun  …☝️ Source: Wiktionary  (view on wordnik.com)

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Etymology

• prolonged TV fundraiser, 1949, from television + marathon (see -athon). Milton Berle's 16-hour television cancer fundraiser in April 1949 might have been the first to be so called.1949, 1949

Translations from Ord

• telethonItalian
• telethonGerman
• telethonPolish
• teletonMalay
• teletonPortuguese
• teletónSpanish
• teletonoEsperanto
• téléthonFrench
• teledonRomanian
• ٽيليٿونSindhi
• تيليثونArabic
• 電視馬拉松Chinese
• 日本の長時間特別番組一覧Japanese
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Rhymes from CMU pronouncing dictionary

• ragunathan
• python
• adlon
• aegon
• aequitron
• agouron
• aharon
• aidan
• albritton
• algernon
• allbritton
• alliston
• altron
• ameron
• amidon
• anasquan
• anyon
• astrakhan
• aubuchon
• audubon

Neighbors, alphabetically speaking

• telesoftware
• telestereoscope
• telesthesia
• telesthetic
• telestic
• telestich
• telesurgeries
• telesurgery
• teletex
• teletext
• telethon
• teletron
• teletype
• teletyped
• teletypesetting
• teletypewriter
• teletyping
• teleutospore
• teleutosporic
• televangelical

Superstrings words that contain this word

• telethons