CARTOONIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cartoonist mean? 

• CARTOONIST (noun)
  The noun CARTOONIST has 1 sense:

1. a person who draws cartoons

  Familiarity information: CARTOONIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARTOONIST (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)

 Context examples 

The comic verse-writers and the cartoonists took hold of it with screaming laughter, and in the personal columns of society weeklies jokes were perpetrated on it to the effect that Charley Frensham told Archie Jennings, in confidence, that five lines of Ephemera would drive a man to beat a cripple, and that ten lines would send him to the bottom of the river.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)