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cybervigilante

cybervigilante noun: a vigilante who operates in cyberspace.

Noun

cybervigilante (plural cybervigilantes)

  1. A vigilante who operates in cyberspace.
    • Anonymity, South Korean legislators had come to believe, was undermining social stability, enabling cybermobs to harass innocent people and cybervigilantes to ostracize and shame people […]2012, Rebecca MacKinnon, Consent of the Networked

Forms of cybervigilante

pluralcybervigilantes

Origin of cybervigilante

From cyber- + vigilante.

Questions about cybervigilante

What does cybervigilante mean?
Cybervigilante means a vigilante who operates in cyberspace.
What part of speech is cybervigilante?
Cybervigilante is a noun.
What is the plural of cybervigilante?
The plural of cybervigilante is cybervigilantes.

Words near cybervigilante in the dictionary

  1. cybervictimization
  2. cybervictimizations
  3. cybervictimize
  4. cybervictimized
  5. cybervictims
  6. cybervigilante
  7. cybervigilantes
  8. cybervigilantism
  9. cybervillage
  10. cybervillages
  11. cyberviolence

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