Pokémon
Syllables: Po·ké·mon/ˈpəʊkəmɒn//ˈpoʊ.kə.mɑn/
Pokémon proper noun: a Japanese media franchise featuring fictional creatures that are captured by humans and trained to battle each other.
Proper noun
Pokémon
- A Japanese media franchise featuring fictional creatures that are captured by humans and trained to battle each other.
- The organization has also named three newly discovered, rare beetles after characters from Pokémon – the Japanese anime series that spawned an entire franchise of video games, toys and trading cards.2021 September 15, Hannah Ryan, “RuPaul has a new namesake – and it’s a fabulous, rainbow-colored fly”, in CNN, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2022
Noun
Pokémon (plural Pokémon or (nonstandard) Pokémons)
- A pocket monster; a fictional creature from the universe of the Pokémon franchise.
- Pokémons are the latest and adamantly conformist craze among middle-childhood boys. The theme of the video games that started the craze is, as usual, the triumph of good over evil. The hero is a child, twelve-year-old Ash. His goal is to capture all 150-plus nonhuman creatures called Pokémons...2001, Sara Stein, “Games They Play”, in Noah’s Children: Restoring the Ecology of Childhood, New York, N.Y.: North Point Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 248
- Game strategy (and tactics) are full of such learning about real life, like the rules, the strategy in games needs to be lifelike for the games to make sense, even if the characters, such as Pokémons, are purely imaginary.2005, Marc Prensky, “Computer Games and Learning: Digital Game-Based Learning”, in Joost Raessens, Jeffrey Goldstein, editors, Handbook of Computer Game Studies, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press...
Pokémon meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu
Pokémon in Hindi
- franchise
- पोकेमोन pokemon
Pokémon in Tamil
- franchise
- போகெமொன் pōkemoṉ
- fictional creature
- போகெமொன் pōkemoṉ
Pokémon in Urdu
- franchise
- پوکیمون pokemon
- fictional creature
- پوکیمون pokemon
Pokémon in Telugu
- franchise
- పోకెమొన్ pōkemon
- fictional creature
- పోకెమొన్ pōkemon
More languagesFewer languages
- Pokémon in Kannada
- ಪೋಕೆಮೊನ್ pōkemon
- Pokémon in Sinhala
- පෝකෙමොන් pōkemon
- Pokémon in Arabic
- بوكيمون, پوكيمون
- Pokémon in Thai
- โปเกมอน
Examples of Pokémon in a sentence
- Pokémons are the latest and adamantly conformist craze among middle-childhood boys.2001, Sara Stein, “Games They Play”, in Noah’s Children: Restoring the Ecology of Childhood, New York, N.Y.: North Point Press, Farrar...
- He could see that little kid’s mess, his clothes, his Pokémons, his old Winnie Dubdoub, his Spiderman^([sic]) poster; and the truck, alone in the empty house for days now, nearly two weeks.2005, Eva Sallis, The Marsh Birds, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 15:
- Professor Oak, the world's leading Pokémon expert, is at once a genius and a bumbling, absent-minded professor2009, Mark I. West, The Japanification of children's popular culture: from godzilla to miyazaki, page 59:
- The beetles are named Binburrum articuno, Binburrum moltres and Binburrum zapdos after three rare Pokémon: Articuno, Moltres and Zapdos.2021 September 15, Hannah Ryan, “RuPaul has a new namesake – and it’s a fabulous, rainbow-colored fly”, in CNN, archived from the original...
Forms of Pokémon
| Proper noun | |
|---|---|
| alternative form (informal) | Pokemon |
| Noun | |
| plural | Pokémon |
| plural (nonstandard) | Pokémons |
Origin of Pokémon
Borrowed from Japanese ポケモン (Pokemon), a clipped compound of ポケットモンスター (Poketto Monsutā), itself from English pocket monster. The acute accent was added to signify the pronunciation.
Words formed from Pokémon
Phrases with Pokémon
Questions about Pokémon
- What does Pokémon mean?
- Pokémon means a Japanese media franchise featuring fictional creatures that are captured by humans and trained to battle each other.
- What is Pokémon in Hindi?
- Pokémon in Hindi is पोकेमोन (pokemon). See Pokémon meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use Pokémon in a sentence?
- Pokémons are the latest and adamantly conformist craze among middle-childhood boys.
- What part of speech is Pokémon?
- Pokémon can be a proper noun or a noun.
- How do you pronounce Pokémon?
- Pokémon is pronounced /ˈpəʊkəmɒn/ (UK).
Words near Pokémon in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Pokémon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-uk-Pokémon.ogg, En-us-Pokémon.oga.
Cite this entry: “Pokémon.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pok%C3%A9mon. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.