chat room

noun

: a real-time online interactive discussion group

Examples of chat room in a Sentence

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Those early chat rooms and instant messages could only hint at the manifold ways the internet would come to shape our culture. Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025 Kurt's Key Takeaways Who would have guessed the ordinary Notes app could double as a secret chat room? Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2025 Prosecutors said Ma had been using video game chat rooms and a family tablet to communicate with the 12-year-old. Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2025 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 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 8 Sep. 2025.

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chat room

noun
: an online interactive discussion group on the Internet

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