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cartoon

cartoon

267 1.1
A movie made from drawings or images that looks like it moves
  • noun
  • /kɑrˈtun/
translation icon : dibujo animado
  • 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.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • This is a pretty popular cartoon and here it is.

  • But it's basically a cartoon, right?

  • They just show you a cute little cartoon of what they think will happen.

  • There's a cartoon on TV which features him.

  • The first movie I ever saw was the Walt Disney cartoon The Three Little Pigs.

  • Jordan told me she'd sit in a room and watch cartoons all day.

  • It was like something out of a Wile E. Coyote cartoon.

  • A few cherished animation cels from 1940s cartoons are framed on the wall.

    Fiction book (1994)

Synonyms

film
vscartoon
1.0

A story shown as moving images in a cinema or on screen

is limited to works made from photographed drawings rather than all moving images
toon
vscartoon
  • Informal
3 7.9

A short film made from drawings that look like they move

is the neutral, standard name rather than the informal word
animated cartoon
vscartoon
2 2.3

A film or TV show made from drawings that seem to move

means the same but is the shorter common term

Compounds

A film or TV show made from drawings that seem to move

A series of drawings with short words that tell a joke or story

How Stylized

anime
25 4.9
claymation
  • Specialized
6.3
cartoon
267 1.1

Surface Forms

cartoon singular
cartoons plural

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.