chat room

See also: Chatroom, chatroom, and chat-room

English

Alternative forms

• chatroom, chat-room

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

chat room (plural chat rooms)

1. (Internet) Part of a website or other network where visitors can converse in typed messages.
   • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

     If he got flamed for his lies or his ignorance, he simply moved to another chat room.

   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎^[1], page 10:

     Similarly, Fingilish usually refers to transliterated Farsi in chatrooms, text messages, and the like.

Translations

website

• Arabic: غُرْفَة دَرْدَشَة (ḡurfa(t) dardaša)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 聊天室 (liu⁴ tin¹ sat¹)

  Mandarin: 聊天室 (zh) (liáotiānshì)

• Dutch: chatroom (nl) m, chatbox (nl) m
• Esperanto: retbabilejo, babilejo
• Finnish: keskusteluhuone, keskustelukanava; chatti (fi) (colloquial)
• French: clavardoir (fr) m
• German: Chatroom (de) m
• Indonesian: ruang ngobrol, ruang bincang
• Latin: collocutorium
• Marathi: चॅट रूम f (cĕṭ rūm)
• Polish: chatroom (pl) m
• Portuguese: sala de bate-papo f (Brazil), sala de conversação f, chat (pt) m, bate-papo (pt) m
• Spanish: chat (es) m, sala de chat f, sala de charla f, sala de plática f, sala de conversación f
• Swedish: chatt (sv) c
• Turkish: sohbet odası
• Welsh: ystafell sgwrsio (cy) f

See also

• chat site

Anagrams

• Homocrat, chromato-, homocrat