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Whedonite

Whedonite noun: a fan of screenwriter and director Joss Whedon and his work, which includes the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly.

Noun

Whedonite (plural Whedonites)

  1. (slang) A fan of screenwriter and director Joss Whedon and his work, which includes the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly.
    • In this way, on the one hand, Whedonites can better appreciate Joss's corpus by examining how certain themes have continued and evolved post–Buffy the Vampire Slayer; […]2011, Dean A. Kowalski, S. Evan Kreider, “Introduction”, in Dean A. Kowalski, S. Evan Kreider, editors, The Philosophy of Joss Whedon, The University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 5
    • Unfortunately, this pop-culture reference was cancelled before most students even got their hands on the last edition of this textbook, and chances are that only the geekiest of Whedonites know anything about it, […]2012, Douglas A. Van Belle, A Novel Approach to Politics: Introducing Political Science through Books, Movies, and Popular Culture, CQ Press, published 2013, →ISBN, page 7
    Synonyms:
    Whedonian

Synonyms of Whedonite

Forms of Whedonite

pluralWhedonites

Origin of Whedonite

From Whedon + -ite.

Questions about Whedonite

What does Whedonite mean?
Whedonite means a fan of screenwriter and director Joss Whedon and his work, which includes the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly.
What part of speech is Whedonite?
Whedonite is a noun.
What is the plural of Whedonite?
The plural of Whedonite is Whedonites.

Words near Whedonite in the dictionary

  1. Wheddon
  2. Whedon
  3. Whedonesque
  4. Whedonian
  5. Whedonians
  6. Whedonite
  7. Whedonites
  8. Whedons
  9. Whedonspeak
  10. Whedonverse
  11. whee

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