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sub-reddit

sub-reddit is the alternative form of subreddit.

Meaning of subreddit

Noun

subreddit (plural subreddits)

  1. (Internet) Any of the subforums, generally intended for discussion of a specific topic, on the Reddit web site.
    • They wanted to give voice to their feeling, in one moderator’s words, that the company’s bosses ‘‘do not respect the work that is put in by the thousands of unpaid volunteers who maintain the communities of the 9,656 active subreddits,’’ as the individual forums are called.2015 July 21, Adrian Chen, “When the Internet’s ‘Moderators’ Are Anything But”, in The New York Times

Noun capitalized: sub-Reddit

sub-Reddit (plural sub-Reddits)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of subreddit.
    • Somewhere deep within the sub-Reddits, the surface web blended with his more familiar surroundings of the Enter The Dark message board that he made such great use of down on the dark web.2018, Chris Thomas, The Edge of Sanity: A Dark Psychological Thriller, Bloodhound Books, →ISBN
    • Reddit is generally reluctant to step into debates about content, preferring to play the role of an impartial or neutral platform and to leave the task of moderating the site to the moderators of individual sub-Reddits.2019, Nicolas P. Suzor, Lawless: The Secret Rules That Govern Our Digital Lives, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 142

Forms of sub-reddit

pluralsub-reddits
pluralsub-Reddits

Questions about sub-reddit

What is sub-reddit the alternative form of?
Sub-reddit is the alternative form of subreddit.
What part of speech is sub-reddit?
Sub-reddit is a noun.
What is the plural of sub-reddit?
The plural of sub-reddit is sub-reddits.

Words near sub-reddit in the dictionary

  1. sub-qubit
  2. sub-qubits
  3. sub-range
  4. sub-ranges
  5. sub-rectangular
  6. sub-reddit
  7. sub-reddits
  8. sub-renter
  9. sub-renters
  10. sub-Sahara
  11. sub-Saharan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sub-reddit (page history and authors); sub-Reddit (page history and authors); subreddit (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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