Webtoon

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An animated cartoon published on the World Wide Web. Internet

    "Have a webtoon! Elf Life: http://www.elflife.com"

  2. 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."

Example

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"Have a webtoon! Elf Life: http://www.elflife.com"

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.

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world wide web

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