Dictionary

netizen en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈnɛt.ɪ.zən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈnet.ɪ.zən/ (Australia)
• [ˈnɛɾ.ɪ.zn̩] (Canada, General-American)
• /ˈnet.ə.zən/ (New-Zealand)
• /ˈnɛt.ɪ.zən/ (Canada, General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Blend of Net (“Internet”) + citizen.

Meanings

1. (Internet) A member of the community of Internet users.
   • The use of the term "West Taiwan" (西台灣) to mock China has steadily grown in popularity since January 2020 when President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said that Beijing needs to face the reality that Taiwan is already an independent country. At the time, netizens conjured terms such as "Mainland Taiwan," "Taiwanese Beijing," and "West Taiwan" to agitate Chinese nationalists, censors, and trolls. 2021 December 9, Keoni Everington, “German video game ad labels China 'West Taiwan'”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2021:
   • A $25,000 (£19,000) prize pool was established to reward the best solutions, and the competition was hosted on Kaggle – a Google-owned platform used by more than a million netizens to build AI models, find and share datasets, and collaborate with fellow Kagglers. 2020 January 21, Katyanna Quach, “How a Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25,000 AI contest with hidden code – and was fired from dream SV job”, in The Register, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2020:
   • The netizen posted their question on the forum.
   • It appeared by Wednesday evening that Congress would follow Bank of America, Netflix and Verizon as the latest institution to change course in the face of a netizen revolt. 2012 January 19, Jonathan Weisman, “Web Rises Up To Deflect Bills Seen as Threat”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2012, page A1:
   • Do we have to learn a new kind of language — ‘Netspeak’, as I shall call it — in order to be a netizen? 2001, David Crystal, “A linguistic perspective”, in Language and the Internet, Cambridge: The Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, published 2002, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 17:

Forms

Deriveds

Usenetizen · netizenry

Relateds

Twittizen

Synonyms

Internet user · internaut · cybernaut · cybercitizen

Translations (49)

it cibernauta (member of the community of Internet users) · fr cyber-citoyen (member of the community of Internet users) · fr cyber-citoyenne (member of the community of Internet users) · fr cybercitoyen (member of the community of Internet users) · pl cybernautka (member of the community of Internet users) · gl internauta (member of the community of Internet users) · gl cibernauta (member of the community of Internet users) · de Netzbürgerin (member of the community of Internet users) · es cibernauta (member of the community of Internet users) · fi nettikansalainen (member of the community of Internet users) · ko 네티즌 (member of the community of Internet users) · lt intenautas (member of the community of Internet users) · pt cibernauta (member of the community of Internet users) · de Internet-User (member of the community of Internet users) · ru сетя́нин (member of the community of Internet users) · ja ネチズン (member of the community of Internet users) · de Netzbürger (member of the community of Internet users) · de Netcitizen (member of the community of Internet users) · th พลเมืองเครือข่าย (member of the community of Internet users) · fr netizen (member of the community of Internet users) · lt internautė (member of the community of Internet users) · pl internauta (member of the community of Internet users) · id netizen (member of the community of Internet users) · de Netizen (member of the community of Internet users) · ja ネット民 (member of the community of Internet users) · sv nätmedborgare (member of the community of Internet users) · pl internautka (member of the community of Internet users) · vi cư dân mạng (member of the community of Internet users) · id warganet (member of the community of Internet users) · pl cybernauta (member of the community of Internet users) · de Internetuserin (member of the community of Internet users) · fr cybercitoyenne (member of the community of Internet users) · de Internet-Userin (member of the community of Internet users) · th ชาวเน็ต (member of the community of Internet users) · fr internaute (member of the community of Internet users) · de Internetnutzer (member of the community of Internet users) · ms warga siber (member of the community of Internet users) · it internauta (member of the community of Internet users) · de Internetnutzerin (member of the community of Internet users) · ms wargamaya (member of the community of Internet users) · cmn 網友 /网友 (member of the community of Internet users) · pt internauta (member of the community of Internet users) · es internauta (member of the community of Internet users) · el κυβερνοπολίτης (member of the community of Internet users) · ru не́тизен (member of the community of Internet users) · ru кибер-граждани́н (member of the community of Internet users) · cmn 網民 /网民 (member of the community of Internet users) · de Internetuser (member of the community of Internet users) · vi dân mạng (member of the community of Internet users)