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Pokémon

[ poh-kee-mahn, ‐key‐ ]

Trademark.
  1. a media franchise including video games, animated television series, movies, card games, etc. that depict a fictional class of pet monsters and their trainers.
  2. a pet monster in this fictional world.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Pokémon1

1995–2000; shortening of Japanese Poketto Monsutā , itself a loan translation of English pocket monsters
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Example Sentences

The newest crypto craze in many ways resembles the days of collecting Pokémon or baseball cards … just add a few zeros to the price.

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The almost watercolor-like graphics are supplemented with an open world seemingly much bigger than anything we’ve experienced in Pokémon before.

In the most recent mainline Pokémon game, “Sword and Shield,” the major components of Pokémon’s gameplay are also still there.

The title, which looks to be the next in the “Let’s Go” line of Pokémon games, addresses every criticism I had about Game Freak’s design philosophy for Pokémon.

Originally, I thought the solution might be for the franchise to move on from series developer, Game Freak — hardly a new idea among Pokémon fans.

They learn the names of all the cars, or the dinosaurs, or all the powers of every Pokemon.

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