cartoon
See also: Cartoon
English
Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /kɑɹˈtuːn/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɑːˈtuːn/
- Rhymes: -uːn
Etymology
In British English first, from French carton (“sketch, cardboard, card”), from Italian cartone (“cardboard, carton, box”), augmentative of carta (“paper”), from Latin carta (“papyrus”).
Noun
cartoon (plural cartoons)
- (comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
- (comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.
- (art) An artist's preliminary sketch.
- (animation) An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- A diagram in a scientific concept.
Synonyms
- (humorous drawing or strip): comic strip, strip cartoon
- (satire of public figures): caricature, political cartoon
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Translations
humorous drawing or strip
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satire of public figures
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artist's preliminary sketch
animated cartoon
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Verb
cartoon (third-person singular simple present cartoons, present participle cartooning, simple past and past participle cartooned)
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