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geekosphere en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From geek + -o- + -sphere.

Meanings

1. The realm or sphere of geeks collectively; a space belonging to a particular geek or geeks.
   • Many visit the site every day; some (like me) read the site many times over the course of the day as a running summary of the geekosphere at any given time. Because of this, millions of Slashdot readers are likely to respond to a story at any given time. 2001, Chris Radcliff, Perl for the Web, New Riders, →ISBN, page 9:
   • He looked around the cubicle he was dismantling, the good old geekosphere: a comfortable mush of old coffee cups and fast-food wrappers and technical manuals and rolled-up softscreens, and the multi-poster on the partition that cycled through classic Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea scenes. 2000, Stephen Baxter, Manifold: Time, Del Rey, →ISBN, page 169:
   • Crowding the geekosphere around his terminal, forming piles on the floor, were not monitor pets but books of cyberthink: […] 2012, Carlin Romano, America the Philosophical, Knopf, →ISBN, page 485:

Forms

Synonyms

geekdom (sphere of geeks collectively)