"social media" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌsowʃal ˈmid͡ʒa/ [Philippines] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-social media.wav Forms: social medias [plural]
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  1. (uncountable) Applications or websites allowing users to share content and communicate with one another via the Internet. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Internet, Media
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  2. (countable, informal) A particular social media site or account. Tags: countable, informal Categories (topical): Media Synonyms: social medium, social [informal]
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Noun

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  1. plural of social medium Tags: form-of, plural Form of: social medium Categories (topical): Media Derived forms: social media intelligence, socmed [abbreviation], sosh meed [clipping] Related terms: social networking Translations (applications or websites allowing users to communicate): sosiale media (Afrikaans), وَسَائِل تَوَاصُل اِجْتِمَاعِيّ (wasāʔil tawāṣul ijtimāʕiyy) [masculine, plural] (Arabic), سُوشَل مِيدْيَا (sūšal mīdyā) [masculine] (Arabic), սոցիալական մեդիա (socʻialakan media) [plural] (Armenian), ܝܘܼܕܵܥܵܐ ܟܢܘܼܫܝܵܝܵܐ (yuddāˁā knušyāyā) [masculine] (Assyrian Neo-Aramaic), sosial media (Azerbaijani), сацыя́льныя ме́дыя (sacyjálʹnyja mjédyja) [feminine, plural] (Belarusian), сацыя́льныя мэ́дыя (sacyjálʹnyja médyja) [feminine, plural] (Belarusian), социа́лна ме́дия (sociálna médija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), လူမှုမီဒီယာ (luhmu.midiya) (Burmese), 社會媒體 /社会媒体 (shèhuì méitǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), 社交媒體 /社交媒体 (shèjiāo méitǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), sociální média [neuter, plural] (Czech), sociale medier [neuter, plural] (Danish), sociale media [plural] (Dutch), social media [plural] (Dutch), sotsiaalmeedia (Estonian), sosiaalinen media (Finnish), some (Finnish), réseau social [masculine] (French), réseaux sociaux [masculine, plural] (French), medios sociais (Galician), სოციალური მედია (english: socialuri media) (Georgian), soziale Medien [neuter, plural] (German), Social Media [plural] (German), μέσα κοινωνικής δικτύωσης (mésa koinonikís diktýosis) [neuter, plural] (Greek), μέσο κοινωνικής δικτύωσης (méso koinonikís diktýosis) [neuter] (Greek), מֶדְיָה חֶבְרָתִית (médya khevratít) [feminine] (Hebrew), सामाजिक मीडिया (sāmājik mīḍiyā) [feminine, masculine] (Hindi), közösségi média (Hungarian), samfélagsmiðill [masculine] (Icelandic), media sosial (Indonesian), رَسانِههایِ اِجْتِماعی (rasâne-hâ-ye ejtemâ'i) [plural] (Iranian Persian), social [masculine, plural] (Italian), reti sociali [feminine, plural] (Italian), socioreti [feminine, informal, plural] (Italian), ソーシャルメディア (sōsharu media) (Japanese), SNS (esuenuesu) (Japanese), 소셜 미디어 (sosyeol midieo) (Korean), SNS (essenesseu) (Korean), sociālie mediji [masculine, plural] (Latvian), socialinė žiniasklaida [feminine] (Lithuanian), друштвени медиуми (društveni mediumi) [masculine, plural] (Macedonian), pāpāho pāpori (Maori), medyaya sosyal (Northern Kurdish), sosiale medier [neuter, plural] (Norwegian Bokmål), media społecznościowe [nonvirile] (Polish), social media [nonvirile] (Polish), rede social [feminine] (Portuguese), media de socializare [feminine] (Romanian), социа́льные ме́диа (sociálʹnyje média) [feminine, plural] (Russian), друштвени медији [Cyrillic, masculine, plural] (Serbo-Croatian), društveni mediji [Roman, feminine, plural] (Serbo-Croatian), sociálne médiá [neuter, plural] (Slovak), družbeni mediji [plural] (Slovene), medios sociales [masculine, plural] (Spanish), redes sociales [feminine, plural] (Spanish), sociala medier [neuter, plural] (Swedish), hatirang pangmadla [neologism] (Tagalog), расонаҳои иҷтимоӣ (rasonaho-yi ijtimoi) [plural] (Tajik), సోషల్ మీడియా (sōṣal mīḍiyā) (Telugu), సామాజిక మధ్యమము (sāmājika madhyamamu) (Telugu), สื่อสังคม (sʉ̀ʉ-sǎng-kom) (Thai), สื่อสังคมออนไลน์ (Thai), โซเชียลมีเดีย (Thai), ማሕበራዊ መራኸቢ (maḥbärawi märaxäbi) [singular] (Tigrinya), ማሕበራዊ መራኸቢታት (maḥbärawi märaxäbitat) [plural] (Tigrinya), sosyal medya (Turkish), соціа́льні ме́діа (sociálʹni média) [feminine, plural] (Ukrainian), مُعاشَرَتی ذَرائِع اِبْلاغ (mu'āśaratī zarāi' iblāġ) [masculine] (Urdu), اِجْتِماعی شَبَکَہ (ijtimā'ī śabaka) [masculine] (Urdu), اِجْتِماعی مُواصَلات (ijtimā'ī muāsalāt) [masculine] (Urdu), سَماجی اِبْلاغ (samājī iblāġ) [masculine] (Urdu), phương tiện truyền thông xã hội (Vietnamese), truyền thông xã hội (Vietnamese)
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          "text": "As you will most definitely know, it's been absolutely all hands on deck since the cast of Love Island 2021 was announced yesterday. Between stalking their social medias and over-analysing their bios, we, the fans, have barely come up for air.",
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          "ref": "2022 July 8, Becky Hughes, quoting Lexi Fadel, “Athletic Greens Becomes a Household Name”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-16:",
          "text": "\"It would literally pop up on all of my social medias,\" said Lexi Fadel, a 27-year-old physical therapist in Los Angeles. After struggling with hormonal acne and bloating, she said, \"I was willing to try anything.\"",
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          "text": "Have a great profile and cover photo, then do a writeup that greets your fans, describes something about yourself, and talks about the content you're going to produce. After that, have some social medias that you can link to – these give you some legitimacy.",
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          "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
          "word": "လူမှုမီဒီယာ"
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          "word": "media sosial"
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            "plural"
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            "plural"
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          "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
          "word": "소셜 미디어"
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          "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
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          "word": "sociālie mediji"
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          "code": "fa-ira",
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          "tags": [
            "plural"
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          "word": "رَسانِههایِ اِجْتِماعی"
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          "tags": [
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          "tags": [
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          "tags": [
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          "tags": [
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            "plural"
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            "plural"
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          "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
          "tags": [
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            "plural"
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          "tags": [
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          "tags": [
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          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "سَماجی اِبْلاغ"
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        {
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          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
          "word": "phương tiện truyền thông xã hội"
        },
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          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
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        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "رَسانِههایِ اِجْتِماعی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "tags": [
        "nonvirile"
      ],
      "word": "media społecznościowe"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "tags": [
        "nonvirile"
      ],
      "word": "social media"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rede social"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "media de socializare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sociálʹnyje média",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "социа́льные ме́диа"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "друштвени медији"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "društveni mediji"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "sociálne médiá"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "družbeni mediji"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "medios sociales"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "redes sociales"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "sociala medier"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "tags": [
        "neologism"
      ],
      "word": "hatirang pangmadla"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "rasonaho-yi ijtimoi",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "расонаҳои иҷтимоӣ"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "sōṣal mīḍiyā",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "word": "సోషల్ మీడియా"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "sāmājika madhyamamu",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "word": "సామాజిక మధ్యమము"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "sʉ̀ʉ-sǎng-kom",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "word": "สื่อสังคม"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "word": "สื่อสังคมออนไลน์"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "word": "โซเชียลมีเดีย"
    },
    {
      "code": "ti",
      "lang": "Tigrinya",
      "roman": "maḥbärawi märaxäbi",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ],
      "word": "ማሕበራዊ መራኸቢ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ti",
      "lang": "Tigrinya",
      "roman": "maḥbärawi märaxäbitat",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "ማሕበራዊ መራኸቢታት"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "word": "sosyal medya"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "sociálʹni média",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "соціа́льні ме́діа"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "mu'āśaratī zarāi' iblāġ",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "مُعاشَرَتی ذَرائِع اِبْلاغ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "ijtimā'ī śabaka",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "اِجْتِماعی شَبَکَہ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "ijtimā'ī muāsalāt",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "اِجْتِماعی مُواصَلات"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "samājī iblāġ",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "سَماجی اِبْلاغ"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "word": "phương tiện truyền thông xã hội"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "applications or websites allowing users to communicate",
      "word": "truyền thông xã hội"
    }
  ],
  "word": "social media"
}

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