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webtoon

webtoon noun: an animated cartoon published on the World Wide Web.

Noun

webtoon (plural webtoons)

  1. (Internet) An animated cartoon published on the World Wide Web.
    • Have a webtoon! Elf Life: http://www.elflife.com2001, 11 September, "Rob Cruickshank, part-time human being", Re: Strange ad copy of the day (on newsgroup alt.slack)
    • As Flash Webtoons and animated shorts have become more and more popular, a spate of tools have cropped up to facilitate their creation.2006, Ethan Watrall, Norbert Herber, Flash MX 2004 Savvy, page 12
  2. A kind of Korean comic that is published digitally for reading on a smartphone or computer.
    • We can read a webtoon using an application on our phone.2018, WESTECH 2018: Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Environmental Science, Society, and Technology, WESTECH 2018, December 8th, 2018, Medan, Indonesia, page 166
    • Now producing a branded webtoon and adding a webtoon platform to a company's overall promotional branding strategy makes it look in-step with the times and popular culture.2021, Brian Yecies, Ae-Gyung Shim, South Korea's Webtooniverse and the Digital Comic Revolution, page 155

webtoon meaning in Indonesian

webtoon in Indonesian

Translations
webtun

Examples of webtoon in a sentence

  • Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi used Flash animation to bring cartoons (sometimes called online cartoons or webtoons) to the Internet.2008, Don Rauf, Monique Vescia, Virtual Apprentice: Cartoon Animator, page 29:
  • When it comes to Flash animated cartoons, also called webtoons, the first noted use was in 1999 when Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi set out to bring cartoons to the Web.2010, Michael Duggan, PSP Game Creation for Teens, page 13:
  • Easy access is another positive trait of webtoons—facile because of the elimination of distribution hassles, […]2022, John A. Lent, Wendy Siuyi Wong, Benjamin Wai–ming Ng, Transnationalism in East and Southeast Asian Comics Art, page 104:

Forms of webtoon

pluralwebtoons

Origin of webtoon

From Web + toon, dating from at least 2001 (see citations). For Korean comics, likely a re-borrowing of Korean 웹툰 (weptun), itself from the original sense.

Questions about webtoon

What does webtoon mean?
Webtoon means an animated cartoon published on the World Wide Web.
What is webtoon in Indonesian?
Webtoon in Indonesian is webtun. See Webtoon meaning in Indonesian.
How do you use webtoon in a sentence?
Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi used Flash animation to bring cartoons (sometimes called online cartoons or webtoons) to the Internet.
What part of speech is webtoon?
Webtoon is a noun.
What is the plural of webtoon?
The plural of webtoon is webtoons.

Words near webtoon in the dictionary

  1. websurfs
  2. webteam
  3. webteams
  4. webtool
  5. webtools
  6. webtoon
  7. webtoons
  8. webtop
  9. webtops
  10. WebTVer
  11. WebTVers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: webtoon (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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