nerd revolution
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The phenomenon (associated with the growth of the Internet in the 2000s) of nerds and nerd culture becoming increasingly influential and socially acceptable.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "One would think no sector would be more immune to a nerd revolution than the culinary world. After all, whether something tastes good or not is a primordial sensual reaction, and there is, in the end, no arguing with someone who doesn't like how their dinner tastes, no matter how many statistics you can muster in its defense. But here too, the nerds are on the march."
- "Ken, as an early leader of the nerd revolution, would be compelling — as would his failures to help make sci-fi be taken seriously."
- "I'm not saying that Napoleon Dynamite was the cause of the nerd revolution, but he still represented something significant. Napoleon Dynamite represented a massive shift in the public's perception of nerds and nerd culture."