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

Thomas Calverley taught PE at Adeyfield Academy, in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and believed he was talking to a 14-year-old boy in an online chat room.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2024

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2023

Any Twitter user can join a Space, which have hosts who set up the audio chat room and choose the topic to be discussed.

From New York Times • May 24, 2023

He is accused of distributing highly classified documents about top national security issues in a chat room on Discord, a social media platform that started as a hangout for gamers.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2023

Frantically, he exited and entered the chat room again, his hands shaking.

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix