Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A person who is a frequent or habitual user of the Internet.

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  • noun computing a member of the community of Internet users

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Blend of Net and citizen.]

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Blend of Net and citizen

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Examples

  • Because angmoh treat the people posting on the net as fellow human beings, but singapore media is trying to devalue the content on the internet and want to treat them as virtual beings, that's why the word netizen, when in fact, it's the CITIZENs that are doing the posting.

    www.hardwarezone.com.sg 2010

  • Chinese Officials 'Africa Jaunt Exposed by "Netizen" Video Back in 2007, officials in China's Guangdong province took a two-week jaunt from South African to Dubai that one "netizen" -- what the Chinese press calls online activists -- captured and posted in a 17-minute video.

    Daily Digest | Can the Netroots Get This Man Elected? 2009

  • Extra points if you can manage to refer to yourself as a "netizen" with a straight face. (thanks Bill)

    - Boing Boing 2007

  • That is why I always use the term "netizen" when talking about online discourse.

    Lee Kuan Yew tells China how to play the Western media rules Sun Bin 2008

  • The Amateur Computerist zine is looking for articles about what it means to be a "netizen" in 2002:

    Boing Boing: September 1, 2002 - September 7, 2002 Archives 2002

  • The average 'netizen' is well educated, with 19% of respondents still studying.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • "So, we may have to use 'moving picture experts group audio layer three' to refer to the simple 'mp3'," netizen "b828" said.

    Medindia Health News 2010

  • And what if you're the kind of netizen who regularly tweets or blogs, or whatever?

    HappyNews - Top Stories 2010

  • China regularly mobilises its "netizen" army to probe the systems of perceived enemies beyond its borders.

    Technology news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Misha Glenny 2010

  • "So, we may have to use 'moving picture experts group audio layer three' to refer to the simple 'mp3'," netizen "b828" said.

    Medindia Health News 2010

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  • never went anywhere, poor thing. there should be a place we dump Extreme Slang Failures

    October 28, 2009

  • I like that idea. Like an Island of Lost Toys, but for words.

    October 28, 2009