Meanings
netizen1
plural netizens · alternative Netizen
- InternetA member of the community of Internet users.
The netizen posted their question on the forum.
4 more examples
Do we have to learn a new kind of language — ‘Netspeak’, as I shall call it — in order to be a netizen?
2001, David Crystal, “A linguistic perspective”, in Language and the Internet, Cambridge: The Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, published 2002, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 17It appeared by Wednesday evening that Congress would follow Bank of America, Netflix and Verizon as the latest institution to change course in the face of a netizen revolt.
2012 January 19, Jonathan Weisman, “Web Rises Up To Deflect Bills Seen as Threat”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2012, page A1A $25,000 (£19,000) prize pool was established to reward the best solutions, and the competition was hosted on Kaggle – a Google-owned platform used by more than a million netizens to build AI models, find and share datasets, and collaborate with fellow Kagglers.
2020 January 21, Katyanna Quach, “How a Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25,000 AI contest with hidden code – and was fired from dream SV job”, in The Register, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2020The use of the term "West Taiwan" (西台灣) to mock China has steadily grown in popularity since January 2020 when President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said that Beijing needs to face the reality that Taiwan is already an independent country. At the time, netizens conjured terms such as "Mainland Taiwan," "Taiwanese Beijing," and "West Taiwan" to agitate Chinese nationalists, censors, and trolls.
2021 December 9, Keoni Everington, “German video game ad labels China 'West Taiwan'”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2021Synonyms: Internet user, cybercitizen, cybernaut, internaut
Netizen2
plural Netizens
- Alternative letter-case form of netizen.
Members of the Net community, whether born in 1954 or 1986, will pretty much always rally to oppose censorship. But don't expect those same Netizens to consider authorship of a work of art on the Net to be important -- or to pay for online content.
2001 February 23, Paulina Borsook, “Art's Cold Welcome on the Web”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA member of the community of Internet users.
Origin
Blend of Net (“Internet”) + citizen.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 網民 /网民, 網友 /网友
- 網民 /网民 (wǎngmín)member of the community of Internet users
- 網友 /网友 (wǎngyǒu)member of the community of Internet users
Finnish nettikansalainen
- nettikansalainenmember of the community of Internet users
French netizen, internaute
- netizenmember of the community of Internet users
- internautemember of the community of Internet users
- cybercitoyenmember of the community of Internet users
- cybercitoyennemember of the community of Internet users
- cyber-citoyenmember of the community of Internet users
- cyber-citoyennemember of the community of Internet users
German Netizen, Netcitizen
- Netizenmember of the community of Internet users
- Netcitizenmember of the community of Internet users
- Netzbürgermember of the community of Internet users
- Netzbürgerinmember of the community of Internet users
- Internetnutzermember of the community of Internet users
- Internetnutzerinmember of the community of Internet users
- Internetusermember of the community of Internet users
- Internetuserinmember of the community of Internet users
- Internet-Usermember of the community of Internet users
- Internet-Userinmember of the community of Internet users
Greek κυβερνοπολίτης
- κυβερνοπολίτης (kyvernopolítis)member of the community of Internet users
Indonesian warganet, netizen
- warganetmember of the community of Internet users
- netizenmember of the community of Internet users
Italian internauta, cibernauta
- internautamember of the community of Internet users
- cibernautamember of the community of Internet users
Japanese ネチズン, ネット民
- ネチズン (nechizun)member of the community of Internet users
- ネット民 (nettomin)member of the community of Internet users
Korean 네티즌
- 네티즌 (netijeun)member of the community of Internet users
Lithuanian intenautas, internautė
- intenautasmember of the community of Internet users
- internautėmember of the community of Internet users
Malay wargamaya, warga siber
- wargamayamember of the community of Internet users
- warga sibermember of the community of Internet users
Polish internauta, internautka
- internautamember of the community of Internet users
- internautkamember of the community of Internet users
- cybernautamember of the community of Internet users
- cybernautkamember of the community of Internet users
Portuguese internauta, cibernauta
- internautamember of the community of Internet users
- cibernautamember of the community of Internet users
Russian не́тизен, сетя́нин
- не́тизен (nétizen)member of the community of Internet users
- сетя́нин (setjánin)member of the community of Internet users
- кибер-граждани́н (kiber-graždanín)member of the community of Internet users
Spanish internauta, cibernauta
- internautamember of the community of Internet users
- cibernautamember of the community of Internet users
Swedish nätmedborgare
- nätmedborgaremember of the community of Internet users
Thai ชาวเน็ต, พลเมืองเครือข่าย
- ชาวเน็ต (chaao-nèt)member of the community of Internet users
- พลเมืองเครือข่ายmember of the community of Internet users
Vietnamese cư dân mạng, dân mạng
- cư dân mạngmember of the community of Internet users
- dân mạngmember of the community of Internet users
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Cite this entry
netizen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/netizen
“netizen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/netizen. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “netizen,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/netizen.
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