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Definition of "netizen" []

  • A person who is a frequent or habitual user of the Internet. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "netizen" in a sentence
  • "Because angmoh treat the people posting on the net as fellow human beings, but singapore media is trying to devalue the content on the internet and want to treat them as virtual beings, that's why the word netizen, when in fact, it's the CITIZENs that are doing the posting."
  • "Chinese Officials 'Africa Jaunt Exposed by "Netizen" Video Back in 2007, officials in China's Guangdong province took a two-week jaunt from South African to Dubai that one "netizen" -- what the Chinese press calls online activists -- captured and posted in a 17-minute video."
  • "Extra points if you can manage to refer to yourself as a "netizen" with a straight face. (thanks Bill)"