tumblr
UK/ˈtʌm.blə//ˈtʌm.blɚ/
tumblr is the alternative letter-case form of Tumblr.
Proper noun capitalized: Tumblr
Tumblr
- A microblogging and social networking website founded in 2007.
- What is different about “quick blogging” tools like Twitter (which imposes a strict character count so it can be easily used on a cellphone) and Tumblr (which allows longer messages as well as photographs) is the degree to which people use them for spontaneous and almost continuous communication.2007 November 4, Noam Cohen, “The Global Sympathetic Audience”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- There are other services for reporting where you’re traveling (Dopplr) or for quickly tossing online a stream of the pictures, videos or Web sites you’re looking at (Tumblr).2008 September 5, Clive Thompson, “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Noun capitalized: Tumblr
Tumblr (plural Tumblrs)
- A microblog on Tumblr.
- Fangirling on your own behind your computer screen is fine and dandy, but once you’ve seen the most popular fan blogs and fansites, the Tumblrs with the most followers, or the message boards where everyone seems to know one another, you’re gonna want in on that excellent fandom party.2015, Sam Maggs, “Engage! Become an Active Member of Your Fandom”, in The Fangirl’s Guide to the Universe: A Handbook for Girl Geeks, Philadelphia, Pa.: Quirk Books, →ISBN
- But despite its confusing themes and erratic jump cuts between unnamed personas, the sentiments expressed are quite familiar to anyone who has visited the Tumblrs of teen girls – as are the images and linguistic choices.2018, Zoe Alderton, The Aesthetics of Self-Harm: The Visual Rhetoric of Online Self-Harm Communities, Routledge, →ISBN
Verb capitalized: Tumblr
Tumblr (third-person singular simple present Tumblrs, present participle Tumblring or Tumblr'ing, simple past and past participle Tumblr'ed or Tumblr'd)
- To post (something) on Tumblr.
- One element of its national campaign around the November elections was the Clipboard Project, which took photographs of roughly 200 music and entertainment stars holding HeadCount’s Register to Vote clipboard. These images were then tweeted, Facebooked, and linked to the official Web site to be...2014, Jennifer Jeanne Richardson, “HeadCount”, in Kerric Harvey, editor, Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics, volume 2, Los Angeles, Calif.: SAGE Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 626
Forms of tumblr
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tumblrs |
| plural | Tumblrs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | Tumblrs |
| present participle | Tumblring |
| present participle | Tumblr'ing |
| past participle | Tumblr'ed |
| past | Tumblr'ed |
| past participle | Tumblr'd |
| past | Tumblr'd |
Origin of tumblr
From tumblelog, an early form of microblogs.
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Questions about tumblr
- What does tumblr mean?
- Tumblr means a microblogging and social networking website founded in 2007.
- What is tumblr the alternative letter-case form of?
- Tumblr is the alternative letter-case form of Tumblr.
- What part of speech is tumblr?
- Tumblr can be a proper noun, a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce tumblr?
- Tumblr is pronounced /ˈtʌm.blə/ (UK).
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tumblr (page history and authors); Tumblr (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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