webname
webname noun: a pseudonym that one uses in an online forum or website.
Noun
webname (plural webnames)
- A pseudonym that one uses in an online forum or website.
- Maybe all the potential terrorists she ever identified were a ghostly as herself; other spooks in other offices, who were sending her own webname upstrem even as she was sending theirs.2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 64
- The poem can also be taken as an example of self-reflexivity in poetry, as the phrase “training piglets to fly in the sky” is, regardless of any metaphorical implications, the author's chosen webname.2014, Heather Inwood ·, Verse Going Viral: China's New Media Scenes, page 63
Forms of webname
| plural | webnames |
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Origin of webname
From web + name.
Questions about webname
- What does webname mean?
- Webname means a pseudonym that one uses in an online forum or website.
- What part of speech is webname?
- Webname is a noun.
- What is the plural of webname?
- The plural of webname is webnames.
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