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reddit
English
Alternative forms
verb en reddit
Etymology
The website was founded on June 23, 2005, by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, and the name is a play on words of en read it (with read in the past tense).
Pronunciation
en /ˈɹɛdɪt/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Reddit.wav US
en ɛdɪt 2
en Red dit
Proper noun
en Internet An American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website.
en AJ Willingham What does the term ‘incel’ mean? w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/16/us/incel-involuntary-celibate-explained-cec/index.html 2023-03-16 Online forums dedicated to incel culture are a reliable way to see how the term evolved and is used today. A subreddit, or forum on Reddit, called r/incels was one of the most visible meeting places for self-identified incels until it was banned by Reddit in 2017 for “violent content.” https://web.archive.org/web/20260628081030/https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/16/us/incel-involuntary-celibate-explained-cec/index.html 28 June 2026
en-US Kashmir Hill She Is in Love With ChatGPT w:The New York Times 2025-01-15 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/technology/ai-chatgpt-boyfriend-companion.html 0362-4331 “I’m an oversharer,” she said. In addition to posting her most interesting interactions to Reddit, she is writing a book about the relationship online, pseudonymously. https://web.archive.org/web/20260219235237/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/technology/ai-chatgpt-boyfriend-companion.html 19 February 2026
Derived terms
en Plebbit Reddit atheism Reddit atheist<qq:slang, derogatory; an Internet user who is hostile towards Christianity> Reddit country<qq:slang, derogatory; referring to Ukraine due to its alleged popularity with Reddit users> Redditor reddiquette subreddit Reddit belt
Verb
en Internet slang transitive To mention (something) on the website Reddit.
en 2017-06-20 Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition IGI Global 9781522522560 6997 It will be carried forward in other blogs, copied, Digged, Reddited, Stumbledupon and Twitted in no time. Harmful rumors spread and cause people to panic (Hashimoto, Kuboyama, Shirota, & Ieee, 2011) To prove
en 2019-12-11 Brian Messenlehner; Jason Coleman Building Web Apps with WordPress: WordPress as an Application Framework O'Reilly Media 9781491990056 404 ... that Batcache is meant primarily as a defense against traffic spikes like those that happen when a website is “slashdotted,” “techcrunched,” “reddited,” or linked to by any of the other websites large enough to warrant its own verb.
en 2010-06-21 John Allspaw; Jesse Robbins Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time "O'Reilly Media, Inc." 9781449394158 184 Monitoring for heavy spikes in mentions is one way to tell when you're about to be Reddited or Kutchered, giving you time to move popular content into frontended caches, bring up cloud resources, or deploy additional CDN capacity.
Adjective
en Internet slang usually pejorative Of, or resembling, Reddit's culture or user base.
Alternative forms
en reddit
Noun
en slang uncountable Reddit's users considered collectively; Reddit's user base, Redditors.
en Reddit praised him for doing a simple act of decency.
en Hello, Reddit! Mind helping me with this Sudoku problem?
en colloquial A subreddit.
en I tried visiting the atheism Reddit; biggest mistake of my life.
en Internet slang uncommon A person's profile on Reddit.
en I did some snooping and found her Reddit.
Anagrams
en ddeirt dirted tidder
en Reddit Websites
French
fr:
Etymology
fr :ubor en:Reddit
fr en Reddit.
Pronunciation
reddite
fr Canada Missouri New England Louisiana ɹeddɪte
Proper noun
m
fr Internet en Reddit
fr Websites
Portuguese
pt:
Etymology
pt :ubor en:Reddit + 1
Pronunciation
redíte,rédite,ɹédhit<q:careful pronunciation> réddit,ɹéddit<q:careful pronunciation>
Proper noun
m
pt Internet en Reddit
pt Websites