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scan-a-thon

scan-a-thon is the alternative form of scanathon.

Meaning of scanathon

Noun

scanathon (plural scanathons)

  1. An event at which people digitize a large amount of archival material.
    • A Scanathon is an event the purpose of which is to preserve family photos by scanning them.2017, “The Scanathon connection”, in The Forest Park Review

Forms of scan-a-thon

pluralscan-a-thons

Origin of scan-a-thon

From scan + -a-thon.

Questions about scan-a-thon

What is scan-a-thon the alternative form of?
Scan-a-thon is the alternative form of scanathon.

Words near scan-a-thon in the dictionary

  1. scan doublers
  2. scan line
  3. scan lines
  4. scan sheet
  5. scan sheets
  6. scan-a-thon
  7. scan-a-thons
  8. scan. mag.
  9. scanability
  10. scanathon
  11. scanathons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scan-a-thon (page history and authors); scanathon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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