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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• chat rooms
  plural

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chat room

Russian managers seeking North Korean workers can be seen posting requests almost daily on a chat room run by MMC Personnel, a Russian agency that provides foreign workers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Thornton also reportedly said he quickly left the disturbing chat room “once he found out what it was.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

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 was charged with the unauthorised transmission and retention of defence materials after dozens of classified files appeared in the online chat room Discord.

From BBC ● May 18, 2023

Also on the screen, along the right side, was an active instant-messaging chat room, which seemed to be discussing the scene on the TV.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman