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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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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