social network
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.87 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A network of personal or business contacts, built and updated by social networking (human interactions of all types); (now especially, since 2000s) such a network as facilitated by the Internet via social networking (digital services that aid it).
Example Sentences
- "The social network of interest in this volume is the personal social network that is centered on a particular child. Definitions of social network draw attention to the ties or linkages that connect individuals (and sometimes groups or institutions)—linkages that can be conduits for diverse resources."
- "Civicizing public spaces is an antidote to marginalization and exclusion, and it requires that we restore linkages between municipalities, social networks, cultural institutions and communities."
- "The trends in recent years have focussed on online social networks, in which the social network is enabled as an internet application. Some examples of such networks are Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace."
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Computing.