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# cartoonist

noun (a cartoonist, cartoonists)

«cartoonist» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A person who draws cartoons: funny or simple drawings, comic strips, or animated films. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartoonist/#m1)
2. Someone who draws cartoons for newspapers that make a point about news or politics. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartoonist/#m2)

### In the lessons

In art lessons pupils learn how cartoonists use simple lines, speech bubbles and exaggeration. In history and media lessons, political cartoons by cartoonists comment on events and leaders; they can be funny and also make serious points. Charles Schulz (Peanuts) and Hergé (Tintin) were famous cartoonists.

### Examples

- I want to be a cartoonist when I grow up. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartoonist/#x1)
- The cartoonist drew the prime minister with a giant nose. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartoonist/#x2)
- Charles Schulz was the cartoonist who drew Snoopy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartoonist/#x3)
- A cartoonist visited our school and taught us to draw faces. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartoonist/#x4)
- The newspaper cartoonist made a joke about the weather. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartoonist/#x5)
- Cartoonists often work with a pencil first and then ink. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartoonist/#x6)

### Note

cartoon + -ist (a person who does something). Plural: cartoonists. Similar: animator (makes moving cartoons), illustrator (draws pictures for books).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cartoonist» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartoonist/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cartoonist» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cartoonist.html) on Mova free.