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"CARTOONS" is a plural of: cartoon. |
Date "CARTOONS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1833. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cartoons Designs drawn on cartone (pasteboard), like those of Raffaelle, formerly at Hampton Court, but now at Kensington Museum. They were bought by Charles I., and are seven in number: "The Miraculous Draught of Fishes," "Feed my Lambs," "The Beautiful Gate of the Temple," "Death of Ananias," "Elymas the Sorcerer," "Paul at Lystra," and "Paul on the Mars Hill." "They were designs for tapestries to be worked in Flanders."- Julia B. De Forest: Short History of Art, p. 246. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: CARTOONSSynonym: Cartoons (Commentary). (additional references) |
Crosswords: CARTOONS |
| English words defined with "CARTOONS": animation, animator ♦ cartoon, cartoonist ♦ Disney, donkey ♦ elephant ♦ Walt Disney, Walter Elias Disney. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CARTOONS": ANGELO ♦ barney ♦ hacker humor, hacker humour ♦ Joint Photographic Experts Group ♦ Pictures ♦ STAINED GLASS ARTIST, syndicated ♦ TECHNICAL ILLUSTRATOR, Things Hackers Detest and Avoid ♦ Yellow Book, Jargon. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It hasn't been the same since cartoons went to color. (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; writing credit: Gary K. Wolf; Jeffrey Price) Aw touché, Inspector, I think someone has been watching way too many Saturday morning cartoons. (Inspector Gadget; writing credit: Andy Heyward; Jean Chalopin) No Homer, very few cartoons are broadcast live. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) I thought all children despise effort and enjoy cartoons. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) I just want to be home watching cartoons! (My Science Project; writing credit: Jonathan R. Betuel) | |
Lyrics | I'd studied your cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines (What's The Frequency, Kenneth?; performing artist: R.E.M.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | God Hates Cartoons (2002) Cartoons Ain't Human (1943) Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons (1937) Cartoons in the Hotel (1915) War Cartoons by Hy Mayer (1914) | |
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![]() | Cartoons depicting officers of the BLAKE in their old age by Charles D. Sigsbee, Commanding Officer of the Coast Survey Steamer BLAKE. In: "Scrap Book Hydrographic Inspector's Office", 1881. Call Number QB QB 281.2 .S37 1881. Credit: Treasures of the Library. | ![]() | Mrs. Nina E. Allender, of Washington, in her office with great quantities of her political cartoons covering the suffrage campaign, standing with Mrs. Helena H. Wood, historian at Suffrage Headquarters. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It is recommended that trainers aim to enhance this text-based information by supplementing it with cartoons, illustrations, and photos, if at all possible. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Saudi Arabia | The authorities allow the press some freedom to criticize governmental bodies and social policies through editorial comments and cartoons. (references) |
Guinea | For example, the weekly satirical newspaper Le Lynx published front-page cartoons lampooning the President and senior government officials. (references) | |
Congo | On February 28, security forces arrested Guy Kasongo, editor of the satirical journal Pot Pourri, allegedly for publishing unflattering cartoons of the Minister of the Interior. (references) | |
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| "CARTOONS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 97.98% of the time. "CARTOONS" is used about 248 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 97.98% | 243 | 19,167 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.02% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 248 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "CARTOONS": animated cartoons ♦ Cartoons [Publication Type]. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "CARTOONS": Spy-cartoons. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cartoons.com joe | 90 |
cartoons.com filthy | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CARTOONS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zeichentrickfilme, Karikaturen (caricatures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | artoonscay desenhos animados. (various references) serier. (various references) мультфільм (animated cartoons), мультиплікація (animated cartoons, cartoon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"CARTOONS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Carltons, carterons, cartone, cartoone, cartoonish, cartus, castoon, catoon, Caxtons, Chaetodons, Dartons, Kirtons. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CARTOONS" (pronounced kÄrtuw"nz) |
| 4 | -t uw" n z | platoons, pontoons, tunes. |
| 3 | -uw" n z | afternoons, baboons, balloons, cocoons, coons, croons, dunes, goons, harpoons, lagoons, loons, monsoons, moons, noons, prunes, raccoons, saloons, spoons, tycoons, typhoons. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: corantos, ostracon. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-n-o-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: cantors, cartons, cartoon, consort, contras, coranto, coronas, cratons, crotons, racoons, ratoons. | |
-2 letters: acorns, actors, cantor, cantos, carton, castor, contos, contra, corona, costar, cotans, craton, croons, croton, narcos, nostoc, octans, racons, racoon, ratoon, scrota, tarocs, tronas. | |
-3 letters: acorn, actor, arson, ascot, canso, canst, canto, cants, carns, carts, coast, coats, conto, coons, coots, corns, costa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-n-o-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: acrodonts, colorants, consortia, copatrons, corantoes, coronates, corposant, courantos, monocrats, nonactors. | |
+2 letters: astronomic, cartoonish, cartoonist, concordats, contraltos, cormorants, corposants, courantoes, nonfactors, octonaries, syncopator. | |
+3 letters: anisotropic, carotenoids, carotinoids, cartoonings, cartoonists, colorations, compensator, confiscator, confrontals, consecrator, conservator, consolatory, conspirator, consummator, contractors, contrarious, coordinates, coronations, corotations, coruscation, cosignatory, cotoneaster, cotransport, covenantors, decorations, fornicators, gastronomic, inoculators, monocrystal, monogastric, nonreactors, obscuration, oceanfronts, octahedrons, overactions, relocations, revocations, syncopators. | |
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