chat room

See also: Chatroom, chatroom, and chat-room

English

chat room (plural chat rooms)

(Internet) Part of a website or other network where visitors can converse in typed messages.
- 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
  If he got flamed for his lies or his ignorance, he simply moved to another chat room.
- 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎, page 10:
  Similarly, Fingilish usually refers to transliterated Farsi in chatrooms, text messages, and the like.

website

Chinese:
Cantonese: 聊天室 (liu⁴ tin¹ sat¹)

Mandarin: 聊天室 (zh) (liáotiānshì)
Dutch: chatroom (nl) m, chatbox (nl) m
Esperanto: retbabilejo, babilejo
Finnish: keskusteluhuone, keskustelukanava; chatti (fi) (colloquial)
French: clavardoir (fr) m
Indonesian: ruang ngobrol, ruang bincang
Latin: collocutorium
Marathi: चॅट रूम f (cĕṭ rūm)
Polish: chatroom (pl) m
Portuguese: sala de bate-papo f (Brazil), sala de conversação f, chat (pt) m, bate-papo (pt) m
Spanish: chat (es) m, sala de chat f, sala de charla f, sala de plática f, sala de conversación f
Swedish: chatt (sv) c
Welsh: ystafell sgwrsio (cy) f

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