cartoon

Meanings

Noun

• A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
• A drawing satirising current public figures.
• An artist's preliminary sketch.
• An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous.
• A diagram in a scientific concept.

Verb

• To draw a cartoon, a humorous drawing.
• To make a preliminary sketch.

Related

Similar words

• comic strip, strip cartoon
• caricature, political cartoon
• animated cartoon, animation

Origin

• In British English first, from French carton ("sketch, cardboard, card"), from Italian cartone ("cardboard, carton, box"), augmentative of carta, from Latin carta ("papyrus"). carton.