Meanings
threads1
- pluralplural of thread
- pluralplural onlyslangClothes, clothing.
Mark Zuckerberg is revamping his public image with new threads. With a trio of bold shirts worn in recent appearances, he’s communicating that he came, he saw, he conquered and he will win again at any cost.
2024 September 28, Blake Montgomery, “Zuckerberg Augustus: Meta’s emperor rebrands in new clothes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of thread
Threads2
- A social media platform developed by Meta, integrated into the fediverse.
Meta did initially suggest that it wouldn’t look to launch ads in Threads till the app reached a billion users, though initial Threads ad formats were spotted in testing in August last year.
2025 January 25, Andrew Hutchinson, “Meta Announces Initial Test of Ads on Threads”, in Social Media Today2 more examples
On the one hand, Threads has a decent chance of becoming a — maybe even the — major new hub for text-based online conversations. Unlike other would-be Twitter rivals Bluesky and Mastodon, Threads arrives with a potential audience of billions who already use Meta’s photo and video-oriented Instagram, which Threads is built on top of.
2023 July 5, Geoffrey A. Fowler, Naomi Nix, “What we love and hate about Threads, Meta’s new Twitter clone”, in Washington PostThe point of Meta's Threads app is to read and engage in public conversations. On Threads, users can post a "thread" — usually a short piece of text — and other users can "like," repost, or reply to the thread.
2024 April 4, Michelle Mark, “Meta's Threads app: The text-based social media platform from Instagram trying to replace X”, in MSN, archived from the original on 28 May 2024, Business Insider
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Arabic ثريدز
- ثريدز (ṯrīdz)Translations
Bengali থ্রেডস
- থ্রেডস (threḍoś)Translations
Chinese Mandarin 脆
- 脆 (Cuì)Translations
Finnish vaatteet
- vaatteetclothes (slang)
French fringues, Threads
- fringuesclothes (slang)
- ThreadsTranslations
German Klamotten, Threads
- Klamottenclothes (slang)
- ThreadsTranslations
Greek Threads
- ThreadsTranslations
Hebrew ת׳רדס
- ת׳רדסTranslations
Hindi थ्रेड्स
- थ्रेड्स (threḍs)Translations
Japanese スレッズ
- スレッズ (Surezzu)Translations
Korean 스레드
- 스레드 (seuredeu)Translations
Polish ciuchy
- ciuchyclothes (slang)
Russian шмо́тки, тря́пки
- шмо́тки (šmótki)clothes (slang)
- тря́пки (trjápki)clothes (slang)
- барахло́ (baraxló)clothes (slang)
- мана́тки (manátki)clothes (slang)
Thai เธรดส์
- เธรดส์Translations
Ukrainian ганчі́р'я, шма́ття
- ганчі́р'я (hančírʺja)clothes (slang)
- шма́ття (šmáttja)clothes (slang)
- дра́нтя (drántja)clothes (slang)
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with threads
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Cite this entry
threads. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/threads
“threads.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/threads. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “threads,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/threads.
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