animated cartoon

American  

[an-uh-mey-tid kahr-toon] / ˈæn əˌmeɪ tɪd kɑrˈtun /

noun

1. a movie or television show, usually intended for children, created from static drawings, models, or objects posed in a series of incremental movements that are then rapidly sequenced to give the illusion of lifelike motion.

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animated cartoon British  

noun

1. a film produced by photographing a series of gradually changing drawings, etc, which give the illusion of movement when the series is projected rapidly

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Etymology

Origin of animated cartoon

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

He then took shape as an animated cartoon and a puppet on television, happily explaining why the public should trust generics.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2023

Sitting beside a bouquet of flowers, the two protesters have posted videos on YouTube in which they call themselves Pinky and Brain, taken from an animated cartoon about lab rats in the late 1990s.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2023

Disney's 1937 animated cartoon "Lonesome Ghosts" features Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy as members of a ghost extermination team tasked with driving out four ghosts from an abandoned, haunted house.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2022

On the other side of a creative gush that produced 164 drawings, he prepared a sequence of 73, which he likened to a home movie or an animated cartoon.

From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2020

All he's doing is broadcasting that necktie—like an animated cartoon in technicolor.

From The Foreign Hand Tie by Garrett, Randall