GeoCity
GeoCity noun: a community of common interests on GeoCities.
Noun
GeoCity (plural GeoCities)
- A community of common interests on GeoCities.
- The place-names (Cape Canaveral, Silicon Valley, Athens, etc.) demarcating GeoCity neighbourhoods, do not stand in relation to each other according to the order of a real geography, but as cultural markers for aligned interest groups.1999, Caroline Bassett, Chris Wilbert, “Where you want to go today (like it or not): leisure practices in cyberspace”, in David Crouch, editor, Leisure/Tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical...
- But there are also recorded instances of people ‘marrying' within the ‘community’ of a GeoCity.1999, Gordon Graham, The Internet: A Philosophical Inquiry, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 148
Examples of GeoCity in a sentence
- Imagine, now, someone whose sole experience of interacting with others lay, or at least had come to lie, in relationships formed within a GeoCity or virtual community.2003, Gordon Graham, “Virtual Reality: The Future of Cyberspace”, in Eric Katz, Andrew Light, William Thompson, editors, Controlling...
- Anyone, from anywhere in the world, could bond in a GeoCity over anything from blue whales to Baked Alaska, from Mozart to muscle cars.2015, James Crawford, Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of Twenty Lost Buildings from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers, Old Street...
Forms of GeoCity
| plural | GeoCities |
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Origin of GeoCity
Back-formation from GeoCities, from geo- + cities.
Questions about GeoCity
- What does GeoCity mean?
- GeoCity means a community of common interests on GeoCities.
- How do you use GeoCity in a sentence?
- Imagine, now, someone whose sole experience of interacting with others lay, or at least had come to lie, in relationships formed within a GeoCity or virtual community.
- What part of speech is GeoCity?
- GeoCity is a noun.
- What is the plural of GeoCity?
- The plural of GeoCity is GeoCities.
Words near GeoCity in the dictionary
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