Meanings
webinar1
plural webinars · alternative Webinar
- An interactive seminar conducted via Internet. Usually a live presentation, lecture or workshop that happens in real time, as users participate through text-based chat, voice, video, or file-sharing.
I just got an email invitation to a webinar on the value of primary sources.
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Web conferences or Webinars are a great way to learn about products or subjects of interest.
2002, Ann Rockley, Managing Enterprise Content, page 274Webinars are often painfully short on exposure to the actual product, devoting half of the typical one-hour length to an “expert” disserting on some lofty topic, another fifteen minutes to a fluffy presentation about the company and its strategic direction, and a scant five minutes to a quick demo.
2003, Francoise Tourniaire, Just Enough CRM, page 168It's not that all women aren't interested in learning to download files or take Webinars, it's that their “why bother” factor may well kick in.
2003, Andrea Learned, quoted in Martha Barletta's Marketing to Women, page 93Register today for our informative webinar and executive book offer.
2006, Selling Power, volume 26, numbers 1–9, page 44One other point: An impressive site design can never rescue poorly written copy, sloppy videos, or boring webinar recordings.
2011, Jon Wuebben, Content is Currency: Developing Powerful Content for Web and Mobile, page 28
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Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*weyh₁-?
- Proto-Indo-European*wiHrós
- Proto-Germanic*weraz
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂életi
- Proto-Germanic*alaną
- Proto-Germanic*aldiz
- Proto-Germanic*weraldiz
- Proto-West Germanic*weraldi
- Old Englishweorold
- Middle Englishworld
- Englishworld
- Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
- Proto-Indo-European*dwi-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁weydʰh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁weydʰh₁ós
- Proto-Germanic*wīdaz
- Old Englishwīd
- Englishwide
- Englishworldwide
- Proto-Indo-European*webʰ-
- Proto-Germanic*webaną
- Proto-Germanic*wabją
- Old Englishwebb
- Middle Englishweb
- Englishweb
- EnglishWorld Wide Webellip.
- EnglishWeb
- Proto-Indo-European*seh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*séh₁mn̥
- Proto-Italic*sēmn̥
- Latinsēmen
- Latinsēminārium
- GermanSeminar
- Englishseminar
- Englishwebinar
Blend of Web + seminar.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 網絡研討會 /网络研讨会
- 網絡研討會 /网络研讨会 (wǎngluò yántǎohuì)interactive seminar conducted via Internet
Czech webinář
- webinářinteractive seminar conducted via Internet
Dutch webinar
- webinarinteractive seminar conducted via Internet
Esperanto retseminario
- retseminariointeractive seminar conducted via Internet
Finnish verkkoseminaari, webinaari
- verkkoseminaariinteractive seminar conducted via Internet
- webinaariinteractive seminar conducted via Internet
French webinaire
- webinaireinteractive seminar conducted via Internet
German Webinar
- Webinarinteractive seminar conducted via Internet
Greek ιστοσεμινάριο
- ιστοσεμινάριο (istoseminário)interactive seminar conducted via Internet
Hebrew וובינר
- וובינר (wébinar)interactive seminar conducted via Internet
Hungarian webinar, webinárium
- webinarinteractive seminar conducted via Internet
- webináriuminteractive seminar conducted via Internet
Indonesian webinar
- webinarinteractive seminar conducted via Internet
Italian teleseminario, seminario in rete
- teleseminariointeractive seminar conducted via Internet
- seminario in reteinteractive seminar conducted via Internet
Japanese ウェビナー
- ウェビナー (webinā)interactive seminar conducted via Internet
Latvian tīmekļseminārs, tīmekļa seminārs
- tīmekļseminārsinteractive seminar conducted via Internet
- tīmekļa seminārsinteractive seminar conducted via Internet
- vebinārsinteractive seminar conducted via Internet
Polish webinar, webinarium
- webinarinteractive seminar conducted via Internet
- webinariuminteractive seminar conducted via Internet
Portuguese webinário
- webináriointeractive seminar conducted via Internet
Russian вебина́р, онла́йн-семина́р
- вебина́р (vebinár)interactive seminar conducted via Internet
- онла́йн-семина́р (onlájn-seminár)interactive seminar conducted via Internet
Spanish webinar, webinario
- webinarinteractive seminar conducted via Internet
- webinariointeractive seminar conducted via Internet
- seminario webinteractive seminar conducted via Internet
Swedish webbinarium
- webbinariuminteractive seminar conducted via Internet
Tagalog webinar
- webinarinteractive seminar conducted via Internet
Cite this entry
webinar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/webinar
“webinar.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/webinar. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “webinar,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/webinar.
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