Pokémon

[poh-kee-mahn, ‐key‐]

Trademark.

1. a media franchise including video games, animated television series, movies, card games, etc. that depict a fictional class of pet monsters and their trainers.

2. a pet monster in this fictional world.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Pokémon¹

1995–2000; shortening of Japanese Poketto Monsutā , itself a loan translation of English pocket monsters

Example Sentences

Edwin was a Boy Scout and a Pokémon devotee.

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Blind boxes are like Pokémon cards, or the toys in cereal boxes.

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Earlier this week, the Department of Homeland Security posted a video montage, using the Pokémon theme song and the show’s animations.

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As well as previously owning an estimated 9-10% of EA, PIF also purchased companies to secure ownership of the Pokemon Go and Monopoly Go games.

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The administration’s messaging campaign is condemned as propaganda that dehumanizes immigrants, with the author specifically criticizing Department of Homeland Security videos that call undocumented immigrants “the worst of the worst” and comparing one video’s use of Pokémon imagery to Nazi propaganda film “The Eternal Jew.”

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