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Webster 1913 Edition


Cartoon

Car-toon′

,
Noun.
[F.
carton
(cf. It.
cartone
pasteboard, cartoon); fr. L.
charta
. See 1st
card
.]
1.
A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; – used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like;
as, the
cartoons
of Raphael
.
2.
A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature;
as, the
cartoons
of “Puck.”

Webster 1828 Edition


Cartoon

CARTOON

n. In painting, a design drawn on strong paper, to be afterward calked through and transferred on the fresh plaster of a wall, to be painted in fresco. Also, a design colored for working in Mosaic, tapestry &c.

Definition 2024


Cartoon

Cartoon

See also: cartoon

German

Noun

Cartoon m

  1. cartoon (comic strip)

cartoon

cartoon

See also: Cartoon

English

Noun

A cartoon from the 13 December 1911 issue of the British satirical magazine Punch. It shows the Russian Bear sitting on the tail of the Persian Cat while the British Lion looks on, and represents a phase of The Great Game.

cartoon (plural cartoons)

  1. (comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
  2. (comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.
  3. (art) An artist's preliminary sketch.
  4. (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.
  5. A diagram in a scientific concept.

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Verb

cartoon (third-person singular simple present cartoons, present participle cartooning, simple past and past participle cartooned)

  1. (art, comics, animation) To draw a cartoon.

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Portuguese

Noun

cartoon m (plural cartoons)

  1. Alternative form of cartune