"nerdistan" meaning in English

See nerdistan in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: En-au-nerdistan.ogg [Australia] Forms: nerdistans [plural]
Etymology: nerd + -i- + -stan Etymology templates: {{af|en|nerd|-i-|-stan}} nerd + -i- + -stan Head templates: {{en-noun}} nerdistan (plural nerdistans)
  1. (slang) A locus of high-tech industry, particularly a town or suburb where many high-tech workers live. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-nerdistan-en-noun-jzuoc4EQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms interfixed with -i-, English terms suffixed with -stan Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 51 49 Disambiguation of English terms interfixed with -i-: 46 54 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -stan: 49 51
  2. (slang) A place that appeals to technophiles. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-nerdistan-en-noun-SC1ky2Ia Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms interfixed with -i-, English terms suffixed with -stan Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 51 49 Disambiguation of English terms interfixed with -i-: 46 54 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -stan: 49 51

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for nerdistan meaning in English (3.4kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "nerd",
        "3": "-i-",
        "4": "-stan"
      },
      "expansion": "nerd + -i- + -stan",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "nerd + -i- + -stan",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nerdistans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nerdistan (plural nerdistans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms interfixed with -i-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -stan",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997 September 12, Joel Kotkin, “Escape From Nerdistan”, in The Washington Post",
          "text": "In the coming decade, we are likely to see the continued migration of traditional high-tech firms to new nerdistans in places like Orange County, Calif., north Dallas, Northern Virginia, Raleigh-Durham and around Redmond, Wash., home base for Microsoft.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A locus of high-tech industry, particularly a town or suburb where many high-tech workers live."
      ],
      "id": "en-nerdistan-en-noun-jzuoc4EQ",
      "links": [
        [
          "locus",
          "locus"
        ],
        [
          "high-tech",
          "high-tech"
        ],
        [
          "industry",
          "industry"
        ],
        [
          "town",
          "town"
        ],
        [
          "suburb",
          "suburb"
        ],
        [
          "workers",
          "workers"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) A locus of high-tech industry, particularly a town or suburb where many high-tech workers live."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms interfixed with -i-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -stan",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006 December 30, Joel Garreau, “The invasion has begun”, in Concord Monitor",
          "text": "It's a Roomba, an artificially intelligent floor-vacuuming 'bot, and this is the year mountains of them rumbled off the shelves not just of nerdistans like the Sharper Image and Brookstone, but of mainstream players like Costco, Sears and Target.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A place that appeals to technophiles."
      ],
      "id": "en-nerdistan-en-noun-SC1ky2Ia",
      "links": [
        [
          "appeals",
          "appeals"
        ],
        [
          "technophiles",
          "technophiles"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) A place that appeals to technophiles."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-nerdistan.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/72/En-au-nerdistan.ogg/En-au-nerdistan.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/En-au-nerdistan.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nerdistan"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 3-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms interfixed with -i-",
    "English terms suffixed with -stan",
    "English terms with audio links"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "nerd",
        "3": "-i-",
        "4": "-stan"
      },
      "expansion": "nerd + -i- + -stan",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "nerd + -i- + -stan",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nerdistans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nerdistan (plural nerdistans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997 September 12, Joel Kotkin, “Escape From Nerdistan”, in The Washington Post",
          "text": "In the coming decade, we are likely to see the continued migration of traditional high-tech firms to new nerdistans in places like Orange County, Calif., north Dallas, Northern Virginia, Raleigh-Durham and around Redmond, Wash., home base for Microsoft.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A locus of high-tech industry, particularly a town or suburb where many high-tech workers live."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "locus",
          "locus"
        ],
        [
          "high-tech",
          "high-tech"
        ],
        [
          "industry",
          "industry"
        ],
        [
          "town",
          "town"
        ],
        [
          "suburb",
          "suburb"
        ],
        [
          "workers",
          "workers"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) A locus of high-tech industry, particularly a town or suburb where many high-tech workers live."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006 December 30, Joel Garreau, “The invasion has begun”, in Concord Monitor",
          "text": "It's a Roomba, an artificially intelligent floor-vacuuming 'bot, and this is the year mountains of them rumbled off the shelves not just of nerdistans like the Sharper Image and Brookstone, but of mainstream players like Costco, Sears and Target.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A place that appeals to technophiles."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "appeals",
          "appeals"
        ],
        [
          "technophiles",
          "technophiles"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) A place that appeals to technophiles."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-nerdistan.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/72/En-au-nerdistan.ogg/En-au-nerdistan.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/En-au-nerdistan.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nerdistan"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (ae36afe and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.