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Pokemon

Pokemon is the informal form of Pokémon.

Meaning of Pokémon

Noun

Pokémon (plural Pokémon or (nonstandard) Pokémons)

  1. 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

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Forms of Pokemon

pluralPokemon
plural (nonstandard)Pokemons

Phrases with Pokemon

Questions about Pokemon

What is Pokemon the informal form of?
Pokemon is the informal form of Pokémon.

Words near Pokemon in the dictionary

  1. pokegirls
  2. pokelogan
  3. pokelogans
  4. pokeloken
  5. pokelokens
  6. Pokemon
  7. Pokemon Goer
  8. Pokemon Goers
  9. Pokemons
  10. pokeout
  11. pokeouts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pokemon (page history and authors); 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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