chat room

noun

: a real-time online interactive discussion group

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For instance, an essay on social media is interwoven with Vara’s coming of age in AOL chat rooms, attending Stanford when TheFacebook hits campus, and becoming The Wall Street Journal’s first Facebook reporter. Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025 The term had been slowly spreading across internet forums and chat rooms before its proliferation in video game magazines and websites. Lewis Gordon, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025 There are some groups that are all dialed in and have these big chat rooms dedicated to the show and their theories in the show. Katie Campione, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024 One cannot help but contrast the night world of the crimes, first conducted in the dark space of the chat room and then carried out when one person was sedated, with a waking world where things seemed to be normal. Katie Ebner-Landy, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for chat room

Word History

First Known Use

1986, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of chat room was in 1986

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“Chat room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chat%20room. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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chat room

noun
: an online interactive discussion group on the Internet

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