social media
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Philippines/ˌsowʃal ˈmid͡ʒa/
social media noun: applications or websites allowing users to share content and communicate with one another through the Internet. Also the plural of social medium.
Noun
social media sg or pl (plural social medias)
- Applications or websites allowing users to share content and communicate with one another through the Internet.
- The early 21st century saw a huge increase in social media thanks to the widespread availability of the Internet.
- "By all means we want people to use social media, but we do not want you to use it in ways that will incite violence," said Jonathan Toy, Southwark council's head of community safety. "This remains a big issue for us and without some form of censorship purely focusing on [violent videos], I'm not...2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian
- A particular social media site or account.
- I decided to delete all my social medias that I rarely use.
- As you will most definitely know, it's been absolutely all hands on deck since the cast of Love Island 2021 was announced yesterday. Between stalking their social medias and over-analysing their bios, we, the fans, have barely come up for air.2021 June 22, Daniella Scott, “New Islander Sharon Gaffka shares an unlikely link with Molly-Mae Hague”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...
- Synonyms:
- social medium, social
Also used as
social media is also the plural of social medium.
social media meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
social media in Hindi
- applications or websites allowing users to communicate
- सामाजिक मीडिया sāmājik mīḍiyā
social media in Tamil
- applications or websites allowing users to communicate
- சமூக ஊடகங்கள் camūka ūṭakaṅkaḷ
social media in Urdu
- applications or websites allowing users to communicate
- مُعاشَرَتی ذَرائِع اِبْلاغ mu'āśaratī zarāi' iblāġ, اِجْتِماعی شَبَکَہ ijtimā'ī śabaka, اِجْتِماعی مُواصَلات ijtimā'ī muāsalāt, سَماجی اِبْلاغ samājī iblāġ
social media in Bengali
- applications or websites allowing users to communicate
- সামাজিক যোগাযোগ মাধ্যম śamajik jōgajōg maddhom
More languagesFewer languages
- social media in Telugu
- సోషల్ మీడియా sōṣal mīḍiyā, సామాజిక మధ్యమము sāmājika madhyamamu
- social media in Tagalog
- hatirang pangmadla
- social media in Arabic
- وَسَائِل تَوَاصُل اِجْتِمَاعِيّ wasāʔil tawāṣul ijtimāʕiyy, سُوشَل مِيدْيَا sūšal mīdyā
- social media in Indonesian
- media sosial
- social media in Thai
- สื่อสังคม sʉ̀ʉ-sǎng-kom, สื่อสังคมออนไลน์, โซเชียลมีเดีย
- social media in Vietnamese
- phương tiện truyền thông xã hội, truyền thông xã hội
- social media in Myanmar
- လူမှုမီဒီယာ luhmu.midiya
Examples of social media in a sentence
- "By all means we want people to use social media, but we do not want you to use it in ways that will incite violence," said Jonathan Toy, Southwark council's head of community safety.2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian:
- Social media are spaces where media power and counter-power are played out.2017, Christian Fuchs, Social Media: A Critical Introduction, 2nd edition, SAGE, →ISBN:
- Social media is no longer a mere public extension of our private socialization; it has become a replacement for it.2019 October 1, Bianca Vivion Brooks, “I Used to Fear Being a Nobody. Then I Left Social Media.”, in The New York Times:
- "It would literally pop up on all of my social medias," said Lexi Fadel, a 27-year-old physical therapist in Los Angeles.2022 July 8, Becky Hughes, quoting Lexi Fadel, “Athletic Greens Becomes a Household Name”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New...
Synonyms of social media
Forms of social media
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Words formed from social media
Questions about social media
- What does social media mean?
- Social media means applications or websites allowing users to share content and communicate with one another through the Internet.
- What is social media in Hindi?
- Social media in Hindi is सामाजिक मीडिया (sāmājik mīḍiyā). See Social media meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use social media in a sentence?
- "By all means we want people to use social media, but we do not want you to use it in ways that will incite violence," said Jonathan Toy, Southwark council's head of community safety.
- What part of speech is social media?
- Social media is a noun.
- How do you pronounce social media?
- Social media is pronounced /ˌsowʃal ˈmid͡ʒa/ (Philippines).
- What is the plural of social media?
- The plural of social media is social medias.
Words near social media in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: social media (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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