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Pokémon
[ poh-kee-mahn, ‐key‐ ]
Trademark.
- a media franchise including video games, animated television series, movies, card games, etc. that depict a fictional class of pet monsters and their trainers.
- a pet monster in this fictional world.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Pokémon1
1995–2000; shortening of Japanese Poketto Monsutā , itself a loan translation of English pocket monsters
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Example Sentences
They learn the names of all the cars, or the dinosaurs, or all the powers of every Pokemon.
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