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webcomic

noun

Etymology

From Web + comic. The word is first attested 2000, but websites titled "WebComics" existed previously (as early as 1995).

  1. derived from κωμικός
  2. derived from comicus
  3. formed as webcomic — “Web + comic”

Definitions

  1. An online comic, especially one first published on the Internet.

    • Webcomics certainly have their selling points. They are harder to censor and generally free from editorial meddling[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for webcomic. 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