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.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• chat rooms
  plural

Example Sentences

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chat room

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2023

The documents were then shared outside the chat room by some of its members, the FBI said.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2023

The Times learned about the larger chat room from a Discord user.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 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

The rest of my field of vision was now filled with the interior of Aech’s chat room.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline