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.

---

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

---

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

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

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

It was sort of like watching an animated cartoon.

From The Right Time by Berryman, John