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netizen

noun/ˈnɛt.ɪ.zən/

What It Means

A member of the community of Internet users.

The netizen posted their question on the forum.

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Netizen in Context

“Do we have to learn a new kind of language — ‘Netspeak’, as I shall call it — in order to be a netizen?”

— 2001, David Crystal, “A linguistic perspective”, in Language and the Internet, Cambridge: The Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, published 2002, page 17

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Blend of Net (“Internet”) + citizen.

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