Meanings
nouncomic book (plural comic books)
plural comic books
- comicsA book or magazine that uses sequences of drawings to narrate a story or a series of stories, primarily in a serialized form, usually fiction.
Synonyms: comics, graphic novel
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA book or magazine that uses sequences of drawings to narrate a story or a series of stories, primarily in a serialized form, usually fiction.
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Translations
Bulgarian комикс
- комикс (komiks)book or magazine
Catalan còmic
- còmicbook or magazine
Chinese Mandarin 漫畫書 /漫画书, 漫畫冊 /漫画册
- 漫畫書 /漫画书 (mànhuàshū)book or magazine
- 漫畫冊 /漫画册 (mànhuàcè)book or magazine
Danish tegneserie
- tegneseriebook or magazine
Dutch stripboek
- stripboekbook or magazine
Esperanto bildrakonto
- bildrakontobook or magazine
Estonian koomiksivihik, koomiks
- koomiksivihikbook or magazine
- koomiksbook or magazine
Finnish sarjakuvalehti, sarjakuvakirja
- sarjakuvalehtibook or magazine
- sarjakuvakirjabook or magazine
French bande dessinée, bédé
- bande dessinéebook or magazine
- bédébook or magazine
German Comicbuch
- Comicbuchbook or magazine
Italian fumetto
- fumettobook or magazine
Japanese 漫画本, コミックス
- 漫画本book or magazine
- コミックス (komikkusu)book or magazine
- コミックブック (komikkubukku)book or magazine
Korean 만화책, 코믹스
- 만화책 (manhwachaek)book or magazine
- 코믹스 (komikseu)book or magazine
Polish komiks
- komiksbook or magazine
Portuguese (revista de) história em quadrinhos, gibi
- (revista de) história em quadrinhosbook or magazine
- gibibook or magazine
Russian ко́микс
- ко́микс (kómiks)book or magazine
Spanish cómic, tebeo
- cómicbook or magazine
- tebeobook or magazine
- colorínbook or magazine
- paquínbook or magazine
- revista de historietasbook or magazine
Swedish serietidning, seriemagasin
- serietidningbook or magazine
- seriemagasinbook or magazine
- seriealbumbook or magazine
Thai หนังสือการ์ตูน
- หนังสือการ์ตูน (nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ-gaa-dtuun)book or magazine
Turkish çizgi roman, çizgi roman albümü
- çizgi romanbook or magazine
- çizgi roman albümübook or magazine
Cite this entry
APA
comic book. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/comic%20book
MLA
“comic book.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/comic%20book. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “comic book,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/comic%20book.
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