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toon.

A cartoon, especially an animated television show.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈtuːn/
  1. A cartoon, especially an animated television show.

    informal
  2. A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

    informal
  3. An animated cartoon character.

    informal
Where this word comes from

Abbreviation of cartoon.

noun/ˈtuːn/
  1. 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.

    countable · uncountable
  2. The wood of this tree.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Hindi तून (tūn), from Sanskrit तुणि (tuṇi, “Cedrela toona”).

noun/tuːn//ˈtuːn/
  1. Alternative form of town.

    Northumbria · alt-of · alternative
Where this word comes from

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.

noun/ˈtuːn/
  1. Eye dialect spelling of tune.

    alt-of · pronunciation-spelling
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