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

Agents that can handle some work for you rather than just chatbots that craft responses, plus fewer limits on usage. —Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 19 Feb. 2026

The company is preparing a version of the assistant for iOS 27, due later this year, that will feature a chatbot-like interface. —Bloomberg, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026

The chatbot-centric companies are building products where AI is the destination. —Ioannis Ioannou, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026

Indeed, chatbots have assumed all kinds of fancy new features over the past few years. —Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2026

Word History

Etymology

chat entry 1 + bot entry 1

First Known Use

1994, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

chatbot

noun

chat·​bot ˈchat-ˌbät 

: a bot that is designed to converse with human beings