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🎮 A media brand 🐾 A game creature
Pokémon

Pokémon

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A popular Japanese entertainment brand about fictional creatures with games, a TV show, and trading cards
  • proper noun
  • /ˈpoʊkeɪˌmɒn/
: franquicia Pokémon
  • A grown man with an extensive Pokémon collection.
  • Pokémon Go
  • Pokémon books

I think that I could be the Pokémon champion.

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Examples

  • I'm 22 years old, and I've been playing Pokémon since I was 9.

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  • My absolute favorite Pokémon card is Venusaur.

  • Throughout history, Pokémon have been part of our world.

    Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)

  • Tomorrow is Pokémon League, so I will have more time to do my thing.

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  • What's your favorite Pokémon game of all time?

  • I googled where was the best place to find rare Pokémon on Pokémon Go in Essex.

  • I mean, of course, the Pokémon games—the great mass hysteria of our youth.

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  • College campuses are being overrun by Pokémon Go.

    Academic text (2016)

  • In the Pokémon animated series, Ash travels the world to catch different Pokémon.

  • The trading card game allows players to build their decks with various Pokémon from the franchise.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

The word Pokémon comes from a Japanese phrase that means 'pocket monsters' and mixes the English words pocket and monster. So the Pokémon franchise is named for these small creatures and includes games, an animated series, cards, and toys about catching and training them.