Usually means: Animated visual art for entertainment.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word cartoon:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. cartoon: Merriam-Webster
  2. cartoon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cartoon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cartoon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cartoon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cartoon, cartoon: Wordnik
  7. cartoon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cartoon: Wiktionary
  9. cartoon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cartoon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cartoon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cartoon, cartoon: Dictionary.com
  13. cartoon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cartoon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cartoon (disambiguation), Cartoon, The Cartoon (Seinfeld), The Cartoon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cartoon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cartoon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cartoon: Rhymezone
  19. Cartoon (m), cartoon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cartoon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. cartoon: FreeDictionary.org
  22. cartoon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Cartoon: The Word Detective
  24. cartoon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. cartoon: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. cartoon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. cartoon: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Cartoon: Art Glossary: Terminology for artists
  3. cartoon: mosaic glossary
  4. mosaic glossary (No longer online)
  5. CARTOON: Glossary of Art Terms

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cartoon: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cartoon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cartoon: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cartoon: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cartoon: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Embroidery Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See cartooned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
noun:  (comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.
noun:  (art) An artist's preliminary sketch.
noun:  (art) A full-sized drawing that serves as the template for a fresco, a tapestry, etc.
noun:  (animation) An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous.
noun:  A diagram in a scientific concept.
verb:  (art, comics, animation) To draw a cartoon, a humorous drawing.
verb:  (art) To make a preliminary sketch.

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