spellathon

发音

AU

词形变化

spellathons 复数 spellathons

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A spelling bee held to raise money for charity.

    澳大利亚 新西兰

    1998, Indian Council for Cultural Relations, The United States and India, 1776-1996: The Bridge Over the River Time, page 284, The annual Spellathon organised by the Scripps-Howard group of publications is the nation′s premier spelling contest and about 8 million students across the nation participated.

    2007, Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary debates (Hansard): House of Representatives, Volume 289, page 18, Most of us who are parents know that it takes a lot of pie and lamington drives, spellathons and school fetes to generate the money needed to complete many worthwhile school projects.

词源

From spell + -athon.

来源：wiktionary