cartoon

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to draw cartoons of

   I cartoon politicians for the local paper.

2. 2
   noun

   A drawing satirising current public figures.

   The newspaper published a political cartoon mocking the mayor.

3. 3
   noun

   An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous.

   The children watched a funny cartoon on TV.

4. 4
   noun

   A cartoon series.

   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. 5
   noun

   a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence

6. 6
   noun

   a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine

7. 7
   noun

   A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.

8. 8
   noun

   An artist's preliminary sketch.

Etymology

In British English first, from French carton (“sketch, cardboard, card”), from Italian cartone (“cardboard, carton, box”), augmentative of carta (“paper”), from Latin carta (“papyrus, paper”), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs) (see there for further etymology). Doublet of carton and card.