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CARTOONIST

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who draws cartoons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("cartoonist" is a kind of...):

draftsman; drawer (an artist skilled at drawing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cartoonist"):

lampoon artist (a cartoonist who draws parodies or satirical renditions of cultural or social or political situations)

Instance hyponyms:

Feifer; Jules Feifer (United States cartoonist who created a sarcastic comic strip (born in 1929))

Goldberg; Reuben Lucius Goldberg; Rube Goldberg (United States cartoonist who drew intricate diagrams of very complicated and impractical contraptions that accomplished little or nothing (1883-1970))

David Low; Low; Sir David Alexander Cecil Low; Sir David Low (British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963))

Bill Mauldin; Mauldin; William Henry Mauldin (United States cartoonist noted for his drawings of soldiers in battle (1921-2003))

Nast; Thomas Nast (United States political cartoonist (1840-1902))

Charles M. Schulz; Charles Munroe Schulz; Charles Schulz; Schulz (United States cartoonist whose comic strip included the beagle Snoopy (1922-2000))

Shel Silverstein; Shelby Silverstein; Silverstein (United States poet and cartoonist remembered for his stories and poems for children (1932-1999))

Saul Steinberg; Steinberg (United States cartoonist (born in Romania) noted for his caricatures of famous people (1914-1999))

Sir John Tenniel; Tenniel (English cartoonist (1820-1914))

James Grover Thurber; James Thurber; Thurber (United States humorist and cartoonist who published collections of essays and stories (1894-1961))

Derivation:

cartoon (a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence)

cartoon (a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine)

cartoon (draw cartoons of)

Credits