toon
/ˈtuːn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
Informal
noun
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
noun
Alternative form of town.
noun
Eye dialect spelling of tune.
name
Example Sentences
- "Did you know Nash had a complete break with reality, that he was loonier than a toon for almost four months?"
- "Proxemics are very important, however, as the positioning of an agent's toon in anon-combat grouping or in the environment can show place within a social group."
- "In 1947 Los Angeles, animated cartoon characters, or "toons", co-exist with humans, often employing their skills to entertain as film stars."
- "Each plot held 10 cull trees so that 60 Australian toon and 40 tropical ash trees were treated."
- "After 7 years, all paint combinations except the self-primed latex are showing some failure on all species of wood except Australian toon."
- "Whan I was a callan, I took the play to mysel' for a week, or maybe twa, and gaed wi' a frien' i' the same trade's mysel', to see what was to be seen alang a screed o' the seacoast, frae toon to toon."
Etymology
Abbreviation of cartoon.