social medium
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.55 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An application or website allowing users to share content and communicate with one another via the Internet; an individual social media site.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see social, medium; any medium or environment facilitating social communication.
Example Sentences
- "His innovative teenage peers were horsing around in the digital playground, looking to create the next social medium or crowdsourcing technique."
- "The term "alt-right" probably makes you think of Twitter or a dark subreddit, or 4chan, or some social medium occupied by meme-slinging, Trump-supporting, unapologetically bigoted provocateurs."
- "Twitter has become newly relevant, thanks to its status as President Donald Trump's favorite social medium, and it added nine million active monthly users in the first quarter of this year."
- "Telegram, whose libertarian stylings and focus on privacy mirrors semi-anonymous bitcoin, is the social medium of choice for online cryptocurrency communities."
- "Being in public school had always presented a problem anyway. Most of the children from the surrounding farms, those with similar backgrounds, attended private schools, so that Ann and Jock did not come in contact with them to make friends through the usual social medium of school."