cyberworld

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noun

The world of intercomputer communication

UncommonScrabble 21

Meanings

nouncyberworld (plural cyberworlds)

plural cyberworlds

  1. computingThe world of intercomputer communication
  2. computingA real or virtual world of information in cyberspace.
    1 more example

    Neo (Keanu Reeves) has been required to fly, to master martial arts, and to learn that his faith and belief can make things happen. His fights all take place within virtual reality spaces, while he reclines in a chair and is linked to the cyberworld, but he can really be killed, because if the mind thinks it is dead, "the body is controlled by the mind."

    2003, Roger Ebert, The Matrix Reloaded review

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekκυβερνητικός (kubernētikós)
  2. Englishcyberneticclip.
  3. Englishcyber-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*weyh₁-?
  5. Proto-Indo-European*wiHrós
  6. Proto-Germanic*weraz
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*h₂életi
  9. Proto-Germanic*alaną
  10. Proto-Germanic*aldiz
  11. Proto-Germanic*weraldiz
  12. Proto-West Germanic*weraldi
  13. Old Englishweorold
  14. Middle Englishworld
  15. Englishworld
  16. Englishcyberworld

From cyber- + world.

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APA

cyberworld. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyberworld

MLA

“cyberworld.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyberworld. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cyberworld,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyberworld.

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