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car·toon

(kär-to͞on′)

a. A drawing depicting a humorous situation, often accompanied by a caption.

b. A drawing representing current public figures or issues symbolically and often satirically: a political cartoon.

2. A preliminary sketch similar in size to the work, such as a fresco, that is to be copied from it.

a. A usually short, animated movie or television program.

b. An animated character in a movie or television program.

4. A comic strip.

5. A ridiculously oversimplified or stereotypical representation: criticized the actor's portrayal of Jefferson as a historically inaccurate cartoon.

v. car·tooned, car·toon·ing, car·toons

v.tr.

To draw a humorous or satirical representation of; caricature.

v.intr.

To make humorous or satirical drawings.

[French carton, drawing, from Italian cartone, pasteboard; see carton.]

car·toon′ish, car·toon′y adj.

car·toon′ist n.

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Noun

cartoonist - a person who draws cartoons

draftsman, drawer - an artist skilled at drawing

lampoon artist - a cartoonist who draws parodies or satirical renditions of cultural or social or political situations

Translations

رَسّامُ صُوَر هَزلِيَّه

karikaturistavýrobce kreslených filmů

vittighedstegner

Karikaturist Karikaturistin Cartoonist Cartoonistin

caricaturiste

skopmyndateiknari

caricaturista fumettista

karikatürcü

漫画家

cartoonist

[ˌkɑːˈtuːnɪst] N → dibujante mf

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

cartoonist

[kɑː^rˈtuːnɪst] n

(= artist) (who draws humorous cartoons) → dessinateur/trice m/f humoristique; (who draws satirical cartoons) → caricaturiste mf; (who draws strip cartoons) → auteur de bandes dessinées

(= film-maker) → auteur m de dessins animéscartoon strip n (= strip cartoon) (mainly British) → bande f dessinée

cartoonist

→ Karikaturist(in) m(f)

(Film, TV) → Trickzeichner(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

cartoonist

[ˌkɑːˈtuːnɪst] n (in newspaper) → vignettista m/f (Cine, TV) → cartonista m/f, disegnatore/trice di cartoni animati

cartoon

(kaːˈtuːn) noun

1. a drawing making fun of someone or something. a cartoon of the Prime Minister in the newspaper.

2. a film consisting of a series of drawings in which the people and animals give the impression of movement. a Walt Disney cartoon.