chat room

noun

: a real-time online interactive discussion group

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Photos of her face had been taken from social media and edited onto naked bodies, shared with dozens of users in a chat room on the messaging app Telegram. Yoonjung Seo and Mike Valerio, CNN Money, 25 Apr. 2025 This conspiracy theory, which has circulated in far-right chat rooms for years, is based on false claims. Stephanie Burnett, USA Today, 23 May 2025 The platform, which launched in 2015, offers users the option to chat with each other via chat rooms or direct messaging. Miranda Nazzaro, The Hill, 18 Apr. 2025 The attention from anonymized identities in her chat room sustains her in ways reality can’t. Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for chat room

Word History

First Known Use

1986, in the meaning defined above

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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 7 Jun. 2025.

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chat room

noun
: an online interactive discussion group on the Internet

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