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car⋅toon

  [kahr-toon]
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–noun
1. a sketch or drawing, usually humorous, as in a newspaper or periodical, symbolizing, satirizing, or caricaturing some action, subject, or person of popular interest.
2. comic strip.
3. animated cartoon.
4. Fine Arts. a full-scale design for a picture, ornamental motif or pattern, or the like, to be transferred to a fresco, tapestry, etc.
–adjective
5. resembling a cartoon or caricature: The novel is full of predictable, cartoon characters, never believable as real people.
–verb (used with object)
6. to represent by a cartoon.
–verb (used without object)
7. to draw cartoons.
Origin:
1665–75; < It cartone pasteboard, stout paper, a drawing on such paper, equiv. to cart(a) paper (see carte ) + -one aug. suffix

Related forms:
car⋅toon⋅ish, adjective
car⋅toon⋅ist, noun
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car·toon   (kär-tōōn')   
n.  
    1. A drawing depicting a humorous situation, often accompanied by a caption.
    2. A drawing representing current public figures or issues symbolically and often satirically: a political cartoon.
  2. A preliminary sketch similar in size to the work, such as a fresco, that is to be copied from it.
  3. An animated cartoon.
  4. A comic strip.
  5. A ridiculously oversimplified or stereotypical representation: criticized the actor's portrayal of Jefferson as a historically inaccurate cartoon.
v.   car·tooned, car·toon·ing, car·toons

v.   tr.
To draw a humorous or satirical representation of; caricature.
v.   intr.
To make humorous or satirical drawings.

[French carton, drawing, from Italian cartone, pasteboard; see carton.]
car·toon'ish, car·toon'y adj., car·toon'ist n.
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Cartoon

Car*toon"\, n. [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's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : cartoon
Spanish: tira cómica, viñeta, caricatura,
German: die Karikatur,
Japanese: 漫画
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cartoon 
1671, from Fr. carton, from It. cartone "strong, heavy paper, pasteboard," thus "preliminary sketches made by artists on such paper," augmentive of M.L. carta "paper" (see card (n.)). Extension to comical drawings in newspapers and magazines is 1843. Cartoonist first recorded 1880.
"Punch has the benevolence to announce, that in an early number of his ensuing Volume he will astonish the Parliamentary Committee by the publication of several exquisite designs, to be called Punch's Cartoons!" ["Punch," June 24, 1843]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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