say it: kahr-TOON
cartoon is a noun and verb meaning "a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine
a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cartoon come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.