English Explanatory Dictionary

webtoon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An animated cartoon published on the World Wide Web.
  2. A kind of Korean comic that is published digitally for reading on a smartphone or computer.

Word forms

webtoon webtoons

Etymology

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.

Translations

Indonesian: webtun Japanese: ウェブトゥーン Korean: 웹툰
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