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Pokémon

[ poh-kee-mahn, ‐key‐ ]

Trademark.
  1. a media franchise including video games, animated television series, movies, card games, etc. that depict a fictional class of pet monsters and their trainers.
  2. a pet monster in this fictional world.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Pokémon1

1995–2000; shortening of Japanese Poketto Monsutā , itself a loan translation of English pocket monsters

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Example Sentences

They learn the names of all the cars, or the dinosaurs, or all the powers of every Pokemon.

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