chat room

American  

Also chatroom

noun

Digital Technology.

chat rooms plural

1. a branch of a computer network or a software application in which participants can engage in real-time discussions about a specific topic with one another group chat.

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chat room Cultural  

1. A service provided by certain ISPs that allows a group of people to communicate with each other by typing at their keyboards.

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Chat rooms can facilitate free-flowing conversations ranging from a discussion about pop music to friendly banter.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• chat rooms
  plural

Example Sentences

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chat room

Before the sun rose over a barren desert landscape, YouTuber Jimmy Williams watched as hundreds of subscribers took to his online chat room.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

The inquiry also examined how the airman had been able to post hundreds of national security documents in a chat room.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2023

Fans connect in a Discord chat room for “Otherworld” listeners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2023

Teixeira posted the highly classified material in a geopolitical chat room on Discord, a social media platform that started as a hangout for gamers.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2023

“Look, if they could trace people through the computer, or through this chat room, wouldn’t they have found me a long time ago?”

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix