name
Meaning 1
The city of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Geordie
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Standard Lemma guide
toon
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Pronunciation
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/tuːn/
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rhymes with -uːn
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/ˈtuːn/
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CMU ARPABET: T UW1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A cartoon, especially an animated television show.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
Meaning 4
A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Topics: video-games
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noun
Meaning 5
An animated cartoon character.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
Meaning 6
A southeast Asian and Australian tree (Toona ciliata or Toona australis) of the mahogany family with fragrant dark red wood and flowers that yield a dye.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
The wood of this tree.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 8
Alternative form of town.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northumbria, alt-of, alternative
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noun
Meaning 9
Eye dialect spelling of tune.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
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noun
Meaning 10
a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cartoon, animated cartoon
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Broader terms: short subject
History
Etymology
(in Newcastle) Geordie pronunciation spelling of town.
Abbreviation of cartoon.
Borrowed from Hindi तून (tūn), from Sanskrit तुणि (tuṇi, “Cedrela toona”).
Standard spelling for a dialectal phonological preservation of Middle English toun, town, towne (and other forms), which was pronounced the same as this dialectal form, with the now-standard form town having diverged therefrom by action of the Great Vowel Shift. See town for further etymology. See also me (dialectal form of my), hoose (“house”), thoo (“thou”), and oot (“out”), for similar cases.
Across languages
Translations
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- French: BD — cartoon
- French: bande dessinée — cartoon
- Hindi: कार्टून (kārṭūn) — cartoon
- Portuguese: desenho — cartoon
- Hindi: तून (tūn) — the tree Toona sinsensis
- Nepali: टुनी (ṭunī) — the tree Toona sinsensis