cartoon

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cartoon/kɑːˈtuːn/

▶noun

• 1 a drawing executed in an exaggerated style for humorous or satirical effect.

• 2 (also cartoon strip) a comic strip.

• 3 a film made using animation techniques to produce the appearance of movement.

• 4 a full-size drawing made as a preliminary design for a painting or other work of art.

▶verb represent in a cartoon.

– derivatives
cartooning noun,
cartoonish adjective,
cartoonist noun,
cartoony adjective.

– origin C16: from Ital. cartone, from carta, from L. carta, charta (see card1).