Pokémon
[ poh-kee-mahn, ‐key‐ ]
/ ˈpoʊ kiˌmɑn, ‐keɪ‐ /
Trademark.
a media franchise including video games, animated television series, movies, card games, etc. that depict a fictional class of pet monsters and their trainers.
a pet monster in this fictional world.
Origin of Pokémon
1995–2000; shortening of Japanese
Poketto Monsutā, itself a loan translation of English
pocket monsters
Example sentences from the Web for pokemon
They learn the names of all the cars, or the dinosaurs, or all the powers of every Pokemon.