cartoon Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine
    sketch.
  2. noun a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence
    animated cartoon; toon.
  3. verb draw cartoons of

WordNet

Car*toon" noun
Etymology
F. carton (cf. It. cartons pasteboard, cartoon.); fr. L. charta. See 1st card.
Definitions
  1. A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.
  2. A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as , the cartoons of "Puck."

Webster 1913