Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

netnews

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: net-news
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Electronic messages distributed by means of newsgroups, such as on Usenet.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Usenet software has gotten much better over time to cope with the ever increasing aggregate flow of netnews[…]"
"In the UNIX tradition categories of netnews groups are structured hierarchically."

Etymology

From net + news.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does netnews mean?: Electronic messages distributed by means of newsgroups, such as on Usenet.
Where does netnews come from?: From net + news.

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