Pokémon
proper noun
- Japanese anime television series
- Japanese media franchise
noun
- fictional monster
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊkəmɒn/ / /ˈpoʊ.keɪˌmɑn/ / /ˈpoʊ.kə.mɑn/
name
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *puhô Frankish *pokōbor. Anglo-Norman poche Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Latin -ittus Anglo-Norman -ete Anglo-Norman poketbor. Middle English pocket English pocketbor. Japanese ポケット Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti Proto-Italic *moneō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Italic *-trom Proto-Italic *monestrom Latin mōnstrumbor. Old French monstrebor. Middle English monstre English monsterbor. Japanese モンスター Japanese ポケットモンスターclip. Japanese ポケモン (Pokemon)bor. English 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.
- 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.”
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *puhô Frankish *pokōbor. Anglo-Norman poche Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Latin -ittus Anglo-Norman -ete Anglo-Norman poketbor. Middle English pocket English pocketbor. Japanese ポケット Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti Proto-Italic *moneō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Italic *-trom Proto-Italic *monestrom Latin mōnstrumbor. Old French monstrebor. Middle English monstre English monsterbor. Japanese モンスター Japanese ポケットモンスターclip. Japanese ポケモン (Pokemon)bor. English 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.
- 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, train them to be good, and use them to capture the remaining wicked Pokémons that so far have escaped. In the games, Ash is not your ally: he is you. Each of the Pokémons has its own sort of power which, after conversion, accrues to Ash’s (your) favor.”
“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.”