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netizen

noun
/ˈnɛ.tɪ.zən/

Etymology

Blend of Net (“Internet”) + citizen.

  1. derived from citeain
  2. derived from citesain — “burgher; city-dweller”
  3. inherited from citeseyn
  4. compounded as netizen — “Net + citizen”

Definitions

  1. A member of the community of Internet users.

    • The netizen posted their question on the forum.
    • Do we have to learn a new kind of language — ‘Netspeak’, as I shall call it — in order to be a netizen?
    • It appeared by Wednesday evening that Congress would follow Bank of America, Netflix and Verizon as the latest institution to change course in the face of a netizen revolt.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of netizen.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for netizen. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA