word-vault/dist/data/cards/ca/cartoon.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "cartoon",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a humorous drawing in a newspaper or magazine, especially one about politics or events in the news",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a political/satirical cartoon"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The funniest contributions to the magazine are the cartoons."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He started drawing cartoons when he was still at school."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["TV, radio and news"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["animated", "strip", "editorial"],
                "verb + cartoon": ["draw", "watch"],
                "cartoon + noun": ["character", "strip", "series"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a series of drawings inside boxes that tell a story and are often printed in newspapers",
            "labels": "British English",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a ‘Peanuts’ cartoon with Charlie Brown"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["animated", "strip", "editorial"],
                "verb + cartoon": ["draw", "watch"],
                "cartoon + noun": ["character", "strip", "series"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a film or TV show made by photographing a series of gradually changing drawings or models, so that they look as if they are moving",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a Walt Disney cartoon"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **cartoon character**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a full-length Disney cartoon"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The kids spend their Saturdays watching cartoons."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Film and theatre", "TV, radio and news"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["animated", "strip", "editorial"],
                "verb + cartoon": ["draw", "watch"],
                "cartoon + noun": ["character", "strip", "series"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a drawing made by an artist as a preparation for a painting",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Art"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kɑːˈtuːn/",
                "audio": "ca/cartoon/cartoon__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kɑːrˈtuːn/",
                "audio": "ca/cartoon/cartoon__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (in sense (4)): from Italian cartone, from carta, from Latin carta, charta, from Greek khartēs ‘papyrus leaf’. Sense (1) dates from the mid 19th cent."
}