newsgroup en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈnuzˌɡɹup/ (General-American)
- (US) audio
Etymology
From news + group.
Meanings
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A repository on a computer network where people can post messages, usually about a single subject.
“Most of it’s garbage and we’re not even bothering to translate it. There’s also a substantial amount of material downloaded from the alt.anarchy and alt.chaos.communist Internet newsgroups. Interesting reading but not exactly pertinent,” Brognola said.
1998 November, Tim Somheil, chapter 6, in Hostile Proximity (The Executioner; 239), Toronto, Ont.: Worldwide Library, →ISBN, page 75:Some of the users are 'old timers'; they have been around in the newsgroup for several years[…]
2003, Sven Junghagen, Henrik C. J. Linderoth, Intelligent Management in the Knowledge Economy:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| newsgroups | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
newsfroup · newsgrouper · newsgroupie
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Translations (11)
ja ニュースグループ (repository for posting messages on a computer network) · de Newsgroup (repository for posting messages on a computer network) · pl grupa dyskusyjna (repository for posting messages on a computer network) · nl nieuwsgroep (repository for posting messages on a computer network) · ru ньюсгру́п (repository for posting messages on a computer network) · ko 뉴스그룹 (repository for posting messages on a computer network) · mk гру́па за ве́сти (repository for posting messages on a computer network) · cmn 新聞組 /新闻组 (repository for posting messages on a computer network) · ru гру́ппа новосте́й (repository for posting messages on a computer network) · ru ньюсгру́ппа (repository for posting messages on a computer network) · fi uutisryhmä (repository for posting messages on a computer network)