cartoon
- noun
- /kɑrˈtun/
- My children love to watch a new cartoon every Saturday morning.
- a cartoon character
Other than, you know, the cartoons I'll sit and watch with Genesis.
- Other than, you know, the cartoons I'll sit and watch with Genesis.
- He's going to watch a cartoon with a purple hippo and a cat.
- I was at home watching cartoons, leaning, just chilling on the couch.
- Whether it's the claymation characters or different cartoons that we've grown up watching.
- You got Ng on Cartoon Network in Adult Swim.
- Who hoist piano is like an old timey cartoon lookout.
- Another thing I had about cartoons is like, wait, hold on.
- Play fucking put pause, fucking watch cartoons, watch porn, whatever you want to do.
Examples
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When I was your age, there were two movies plus cartoons every Saturday.
Fiction book (1992) -
And then there was a Disney cartoon with Pluto or Goofy.
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This is a pretty popular cartoon and here it is.
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But it's basically a cartoon, right?
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They just show you a cute little cartoon of what they think will happen.
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There's a cartoon on TV which features him.
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The first movie I ever saw was the Walt Disney cartoon The Three Little Pigs.
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Jordan told me she'd sit in a room and watch cartoons all day.
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It was like something out of a Wile E. Coyote cartoon.
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A few cherished animation cels from 1940s cartoons are framed on the wall.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
A story shown as moving images in a cinema or on screen
A short film made from drawings that look like they move
A film or TV show made from drawings that seem to move
Compounds
How Stylized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cartoon for an animated film comes from the Italian cartone, which means 'large paper' and from carta 'paper'. Early animated films were made by showing many paper drawings quickly, so moving pictures made from drawings became called cartoons.