The Jetsons
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5.5
- proper noun
- The Jetsons is a classic animated series that showcases a futuristic family living in a high-tech world.
Examples
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The technology in The Jetsons inspired real-life inventions decades later.
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Many people remember watching The Jetsons and dreaming about flying cars and robot maids.
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For the party, she dressed up as Jane from The Jetsons and won first prize.
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I grew up watching The Jetsons every Saturday morning.
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Did you see the new movie based on The Jetsons?
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Many people loved watching The Jetsons as it portrayed life in a space-age society with flying cars.
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In the animated show The Jetsons, George and Jane raise their children in a world filled with robots and advanced technology.
Synonyms
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1.0
An American animated TV show about a funny family and a brand with many products
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3.8
A cartoon family who live in the Stone Age in an American TV show
Surface Forms
Morphology
the + Jetsons
This is a proper name referring to a specific animated TV family, so its meaning as shorthand for a futuristic, high-technology lifestyle depends on cultural/world knowledge of the show rather than compositional inference from the parts. Even if a learner knows 'jet' or the definite article 'the', they cannot reliably derive the idiomatic association with a high-tech future, so the expression is opaque to B1 learners.
Etymology
The Jetsons are the cartoon family who live in that future world and use gadgets like robot maids and sky cars; their name echoes jet (fast flying machines). Because we picture their home and clothes, the name refers to those specific characters and their style.