What Is Cartoon? Definition And Usage Of This Term

WHAT IS CARTOON – In this topic, we will first know and learn the definition of this term and how is this term used in sentences.

Definition

The Oxford Dictionary defines the term as the following:

a simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in a humorously exaggerated way, especially a satirical one in a newspaper or magazine.
a comic strip.
a simplified or exaggerated version or interpretation of something.
a motion picture using animation techniques to photograph a sequence of drawings rather than real people or objects.
a full-size drawing made by an artist as a preliminary design for a painting or other work of art.
make a drawing of (someone) in a simplified or exaggerated way.

Meanwhile, the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines this term as the following:

Synonyms

Here are some of the following synonyms:

Etymology

It is a late 16th century which is from the Italian cartone, which is from the Latin carta and charta

Examples

Here are some examples of the usage of this term:

At a reading held at the University of Bonn, someone left an anti-Semitic cartoon on his lectern.
She attached the prescriptions to the fridge with another cartoon magnet and smoothed out the paperwork she’d been given from the police station.
In reply her correspondent says that the master is wholly taken up with geometry and very impatient of the brush, but at the same time tells her all about his just completed cartoon for the Annunziata.
The place assigned to Leonardo for the preparation of his cartoon was the Sala del Papa at Santa Maria Novella.