cyber
/ˈsaɪ.bəɹ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.98 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, or having to do with, the Internet; alternative form of cyber-.
noun
Everything having to do with digital threats considered collectively: cybersecurity, cyberterrorism, cyberwarfare, cyberweapons, and so on.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "I pointed out to him we have significant cyber capability and he knows it. He doesn’t know exactly what it is, but it’s significant. And if in fact they violate these basic norms, we will respond cyberly. He knows. In a cyber way."
- "She is a high priestess of the Church of the SubGenius, a devotee of the music of Tom Waits and Robert Smith, and of goth and cyber subcultures."
- "...a cross between metal, punk, goth, cyber, and rock."
- "No CyberGoth is complete without gigantic "stompy" platform boots and the optional toy ray gun. Some are even more anachronistic in that they incorporate old Renaissance and Victorian styles into their much-loved cyber wear."
- "Wanna cyber?"
- "These prefigure the more complex aspects of virtual and real interactions which the cyber will deliver to us in these early years of the new millennium."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsaɪ.bəɹ/
- British English: /ˈsaɪ.bə/