Noun: cartoon
| Singular | cartoon |
| Plural | cartoons |
Sample Sentences
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The newspaper published a political cartoon mocking the mayor.
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The children watched a funny cartoon on TV.
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12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
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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.
Nouns inflected like cartoon
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: French Nouns '
carton', Italian Nouns '
cartone', Latin Nouns '
carta', Ancient Greek Nouns '
χάρτης'.
Verbs referencing "cartoon"
German Nouns
Cartoon, Portuguese Nouns
cartune.