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

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

One of the calls was recorded and published on YouTube and Facebook on Monday night by the hoaxers with an animated cartoon of Harry and Greta.

From Fox News • Mar. 11, 2020

The series has its origins in a barely animated cartoon, "Gary Space," posted in 2010 on Rogers' YouTube channel, in which an astronaut named Gary encounters a round little alien, which he feeds a Pez.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2018

A recording of that onomatopoeic gurgle — ding-ding-da-da-ding-ding — began to circulate online, and in 2003, another Swede drew an animated cartoon character to go with it.

From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2017

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

From The Foreign Hand Tie by Garrett, Randall