webinar

American  

[web-uh-nahr] / ˈwɛb əˌnɑr /

noun

1. a seminar or other presentation that takes place on the internet, allowing participants in different locations to see and hear the presenter, ask questions, and sometimes answer polls.

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webinar British  

/ ˈwɛbɪˌnɑː /

noun

1. an interactive seminar conducted over the World Wide Web

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Etymology

Origin of webinar

First recorded in 1990–95; Web + (sem)inar

Example Sentences

Over the holidays, she scrambled to organize a webinar on the pitfalls and potential of the new artificial-intelligence technology.

From New York Times

“These extremes will get worse as temperatures continue to rise,” Forster said at the webinar.

From Scientific American

Thanks to an easing of pandemic restrictions, admission officers began traveling to high schools and college fairs again while continuing online webinars, some in Spanish, and intensifying social media outreach.

From Los Angeles Times

Together, the four doctors created the Hospital at Home Users Group, to share lessons learned, hold webinars and organize conferences for health systems that were interested in their own initiatives.

From New York Times

“We don’t put investor capital at risk, period, the end,” he promised in the webinar.

From Washington Post