/ˈfeɪsˌbʊk/UK/ˈfeɪsbʊk/
facebook noun: a reference book or electronic directory containing the photographs and names of various individuals. Also the alternative letter-case form of Facebook.
Noun (1)
facebook (plural facebooks)
- A reference book or electronic directory containing the photographs and names of various individuals.
- He had gotten the call from the casino-a client who had recognized them from the facebook-and had flown down to the Bahamas to teach them a lesson.2002, Ben Mezrich, Bringing Down the House
- Synonyms:
- mug book
- A college publication distributed at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students become acquainted with each other.
- The shipment of facebooks will be distributed to the freshmen during orientation and move-in-week.
- In the last month, since he’d embarked on projects like digitally scanning Melissa Paquette’s face from a freshman facebook and suturing her head to obscene downloaded images and tinkering with these images pixel by pixel (and the hours did fly by when you were tinkering with pixels), he’d read no...2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
Proper noun capitalized: Facebook
- A social-networking website where users can find acquaintances or friends, exchange messages, and post updates.
- Mia was just seeing a reel on Facebook that her friend had posted.
- Google is one of several Big Tech firms that has made an aggressive push into gaming in recent years, along with Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB).2021 February 1, Rishi Iyengar, “Google will stop making video games for its Stadia platform”, in CNN Business
- Synonyms:
- FB
Noun (2) capitalized: Facebook
Facebook (plural Facebooks)
- A personal web profile on the social-networking site Facebook.
- You might have a Facebook. So do I. And so does my mom and my grandma and all of her friends. But you know who doesn’t have a Facebook? Your kid’s friends.2015 March 27, “To the Well-Intentioned but Ignorant Parents of Teenagers.”https://web.archive.org/web/20160216211258/https://cutestpkever.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/to-the-well-intentioned-but-ignorant...
- 'An intimate photo has been posted on your cloned Facebook page,' says Greg. 'What, of me in the nuddy?' Nick snorts a note of laughter. 'No, of you and a woman.' 'What woman? Show me,' he says holding his hand out.2021 July 28, Ruby Speechley, The Face At The Window: A gripping, twisty thriller you won't be able to put down, Hera books Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC
Verb capitalized: Facebook
Facebook (third-person singular simple present Facebooks, present participle Facebooking, simple past and past participle Facebooked)
- To use the social-networking site Facebook.
- To send a message or leave a comment on Facebook.
- Facebook me the details later.
- Corinthia’s bathroom was never discussed with the Lugo Memorial student body, but when it (the bathroom) materialized, it was Facebooked, Instagrammed, Tweeted, Foursquared, WordPressed, Tumblred, Snapchatted, and so thoroughly digitally disseminated that it was as if pictures of Rinna Buss’s...2018, Adam Rapp, chapter 1, in Fum, Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 21
Also used as
facebook is also the alternative letter-case form of Facebook.
Synonyms of facebook
Forms of facebook
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | facebooks |
| plural | Facebooks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | facebooks |
| present participle | facebooking |
| past participle | facebooked |
| past | facebooked |
| third-person singular present | Facebooks |
| present participle | Facebooking |
| past participle | Facebooked |
| past | Facebooked |
| Proper noun | |
| alternative form | |
Origin of facebook
From face + book, likely modelled after namebook.
English Facebook From facebook, earlier TheFacebook and Facemash.
Words formed from facebook
Phrases with facebook
Questions about facebook
- What does facebook mean?
- Facebook means a reference book or electronic directory containing the photographs and names of various individuals.
- What part of speech is facebook?
- Facebook can be a noun, a proper noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce facebook?
- Facebook is pronounced /ˈfeɪsˌbʊk/.
- What is the plural of facebook?
- The plural of facebook is facebooks.
Words near facebook in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: facebook (page history and authors); Facebook (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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