steampunk
nounEtymology
From steam + -punk, by analogy with cyberpunk, coined by science-fiction writer Kevin Wayne Jeter (born 1950) in a 1987 letter to the magazine Locus in response to a review of his book Infernal Devices published the same year (see the quotation below).
Definitions
A subgenre of science fiction that depicts advanced technology combined with Victorian…
A subgenre of science fiction that depicts advanced technology combined with Victorian style and aesthetics, such as steam-powered machines and vehicles, visible gears and screws and people dressed in 19th-century attires.
- There's railroad trains, a lot of steam-driven stuff, but that's about it. More ‘steam punk’, I suppose.
- The [Arboath North Signal Box] locking room's collection of chains, pulleys and wires resembles the inside of a piano, stretching to the 72-levered frame above. Lovers of steampunk will find it especially pleasing.
A writer of steampunk fiction.
A person cosplaying as a steampunk character.
- It wound up being an overwhelmingly positive experience that made me appreciate the steampunks around me even more.
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To depict in a steampunk manner.
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Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for steampunk. 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