Reddit

See also: reddit

English

Alternative forms

• 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 read it (with read in the past tense).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛdɪt/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛdɪt
• Hyphenation: Red‧dit

Proper noun

Reddit

1. (Internet) An American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website.

Synonyms

• the front page of the Internet

Derived terms

• Plebbit
• Redditor
• reddiquette
• subreddit

Verb

Reddit (third-person singular simple present Reddits, present participle Redditing, simple past and past participle Reddited)

1. (Internet slang, transitive) To mention on the website Reddit.
   • 2017 June 20, Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 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 […]

   • 2019 December 11, Brian Messenlehner, Jason Coleman, Building Web Apps with WordPress: WordPress as an Application Framework, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 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.

   • 2010 June 21, John Allspaw, Jesse Robbins, Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 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

Reddit (comparative more Reddit, superlative most Reddit)

1. (Internet slang, usually derogatory) Of, or resembling, Reddit's culture or userbase.

Alternative forms

• reddit

Anagrams

• dirted, tidder

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Reddit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛ.dit/ ~ /ʁe.dit/
• (Canada, Missouri, New England, Louisiana) IPA^(key): /ɹɛdɪt/

Proper noun

Reddit m

1. (Internet) Reddit

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Reddit.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈd͡ʒi.t͡ʃi/ [heˈd͡ʒi.t͡ʃi], /ˈʁɛ.d͡ʒi.t͡ʃi/ [ˈhɛ.d͡ʒi.t͡ʃi], (careful pronunciation) /ˈɹɛ.dit/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈd͡ʒi.t͡ʃi/ [heˈd͡ʒi.t͡ʃi], /ˈʁɛ.d͡ʒi.t͡ʃi/ [ˈhɛ.d͡ʒi.t͡ʃi], (careful pronunciation) /ˈɹɛ.dit/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈd͡ʒi.t͡ʃi/ [χeˈd͡ʒi.t͡ʃi], /ˈʁɛ.d͡ʒi.t͡ʃi/ [ˈχɛ.d͡ʒi.t͡ʃi], (careful pronunciation) /ˈɹɛ.dit/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈd͡ʒi.te/ [heˈd͡ʒi.te], /ˈʁɛ.d͡ʒi.te/ [ˈhɛ.d͡ʒi.te], (careful pronunciation) /ˈɹɛ.dit/

Proper noun

Reddit m

1. (Internet) Reddit