social media

noun

plural in form but singular or plural in construction

: forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos)

Examples of social media in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Tennessee’s social media team went up and down Broadway, and the surrounding area in downtown Nashville to find lookalikes of key figures of their 2026 opponents. —Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026

Others on social media lean into bold colors or animal stripes, to play up the wild quality of the shape. —Diana Tsui, Footwear News, 15 May 2026

As Renee DiResta, a researcher at Georgetown University, noted in 2025, social media is exceedingly good at shaping public opinion. —Drew Pittock, USA Today, 15 May 2026

Four social media posts by the NFL about Matsuzawa’s unlikely route to the league have generated about 3 million impressions combined globally, the league said. —Andrew Greif, NBC news, 15 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1994, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for social media

• comedia
• commedia
• cyclopaedia
• cyclopedia
• hypermedia
• intermedia
• multimedia
• encyclopaedia
• encyclopedia

Kids Definition

social media

singular or plural noun

: forms of electronic communication (as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos)