Pokémon
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Japanese ポケモン (Pokemon), a contraction of ポケットモンスター (Poketto Monsutā), itself from English pocket monster.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpəʊ.kə.mɒn/
Audio (UK) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈpoʊ.keɪˌmɑn/, /ˈpoʊ.kə.mɑn/, /ˈpoʊ.kiˌmɑn/
Audio (US) (file) - (Hong Kong) IPA(key): /ˈpoʊ.ki.mɔn/
- (Canada) IPA(key): [ˈpo(ː)kɪmɒ(ː)n], [-ke-], [-kə-]
- Hyphenation: Po‧ké‧mon
Proper noun edit
Pokémon
- A Japanese media franchise featuring fictional creatures that are captured by humans and trained to battle each other.
Translations edit
franchise
Noun edit
Pokémon (plural Pokémon or (nonstandard) Pokémons)
- A pocket monster; a fictional creature from the universe of the Pokémon franchise.
- 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:
- 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.
- 2005, Marc Prensky, “Computer Games and Learning: Digital Game-Based Learning”, in Joost Raessens, Jeffrey Goldstein, editors, Handbook of Computer Game Studies, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, →ISBN, part II (Design), page 106, column 2:
- 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.
- 2005, Eva Sallis, The Marsh Birds, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 15:
- He had been delighted when his mother said, Just leave everything as it is. Not even his bed was made. He could see that little kid’s mess, his clothes, his Pokémons, his old Winnie Dubdoub, his Spiderman poster; and the truck, alone in the empty house for days now, nearly two weeks.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
fictional creature
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Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Pokémon n (proper noun, strong, genitive Pokémons or (with an article) Pokémon)
- Pokémon (franchise)
Noun edit
Pokémon n (strong, genitive Pokémons or Pokémon, plural Pokémons or Pokémon)
- Pokémon (fictional creature)