chatbot

noun

chat·​bot ˈchat-ˌbät 

plural chatbots

: a bot (see bot entry 1 sense 3) that is designed to converse with human beings

Chatbots … have been around for years, mostly to answer generic questions over the phone or on a website.

—Dalvin Brown

The challenge is to create a chatbot that can converse coherently and engagingly with humans on popular topics for 20 minutes.

—Marc Saltzman

Examples of chatbot in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The plant that once symbolized nuclear power’s downfall will soon run chatbots. — Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026

The fix gets dismissed as a database bolted onto a chatbot, when continual learning is a fundamentally unsolved machine learning problem. — Alexander Kardos-Nyheim, Fortune, 25 July 2026

The group spent six futile months trying to prompt various artificial intelligence chatbots using Birman’s approach. — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 24 July 2026

Dai said her research originally focused on how chatbots could provide social support. — Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 23 July 2026

Word History

Etymology

chat entry 1 + bot entry 1

First Known Use

1994, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for chatbot

• acknow
• aglow
• ago
• airglow
• aloe
• altho
• although
• ammo
• backflow
• backhoe
• banjo
• barbeau

Kids Definition

chatbot

noun

chat·​bot ˈchat-ˌbät 

: a bot that is designed to converse with human beings