Internet

English

Alternative forms

• internet (see Usage notes below)

Etymology

Coined by the U.S. Defense Department in 1986, shortening of internetwork.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɪntəˌnɛt/
• (US) enPR: ĭnʹtərnĕt', IPA^(key): /ˈɪntɚˌnɛt/,

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Inter‧net
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Proper noun

the Internet

1. The specific internet consisting of a global network of computers that communicate using Internet Protocol (IP) and that use Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to identify the best paths to route those communications.
   • 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreword", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi

     f you think the Internet existed in 1970, I can only guess that the education system has left at least one child behind.

Usage notes

• When referring to the global internet, the proper noun was originally usually capitalised (Internet), reserving internet with a lowercase i for the common noun, referring to any other set of computer networks connected by internetworking; however, increasingly, the proper noun sense also takes a lowercase i. Compare similar examples in how the proper names for the Sun (the sun), the Moon (the moon), the Universe (the universe), and the World (the world) are variably capitalized in English orthography.
• The internet, the World Wide Web (the Web, the web), and cyberspace are often loosely treated as synonymous, but in careful usage, each of those terms has a more precise meaning, overlapping in a semantic field.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:Internet

Derived terms

• break the Internet
• front page of the Internet
• Internet of Everything
• Internet of Things

Related terms

• extranet
• intranet

Translations

References

• Internet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• renitent

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from English Internet.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

Internet (uncountable)

1. the Internet

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English Internet.

Proper noun

Internet m

1. Internet

Finnish

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

Internet

Wikipedia ^fi

Alternative forms

• internet

Etymology

Borrowed from English Internet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈint(ː)ernet/,
• Rhymes: -internet
• Syllabification^(key): In‧ter‧net

Proper noun

Internet

1. (Internet) the Internet

Declension

Synonyms

• netti
• (imprecisely) verkko (“Web”), www
• (colloquially, imprecisely) veppi, weppi, webbi

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

Internet

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

Borrowed from English Internet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.nɛt/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Internet m

1. the Internet

   Synonyms: internet, Net

Usage notes

Generally used without the definite article in French, unlike English; thus "on the Internet" in French is sur Internet.

German

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Internet

Wikipedia ^de

Etymology

Borrowed from English Internet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪntɐnɛt/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

Internet n (strong, genitive Internets or Internet, no plural)

1. internet

Usage notes

• While the genitive Internet is often seen, the more Germanic Internets is more frequently used. For example:

  Der Einfluss des Internets nimmt weiter zu.

  The influence of the internet continues to grow.

Declension

Derived terms

• Internet der Dinge

Further reading

• “Internet” in Duden online
• “Internet” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hunsrik

Etymology

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Internet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /intɐˈnet/

Noun

Internet n

1. internet

   Ich hon’s im Internet gesihn.

   I've seen it on the internet.

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Icelandic

Icelandic Wikipedia has an article on:

Internet

Wikipedia ^is

Etymology

Borrowed from English Internet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪn̥tɛrˌnɛːt/

Proper noun

Internet n

1. (usually definite) the Internet

   Synonyms: net, alnet, lýðnet

Declension

See also

• veraldarvefur (“World Wide Web”)

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Internet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈin.ter.net/, /in.terˈnɛt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -internet, -ɛt
• Hyphenation: Ìn‧ter‧net, In‧ter‧nèt

Noun

Internet f (invariable)

1. Alternative form of internet

References

Anagrams

• nitrente, trentine

Plautdietsch

Noun

Internet n

1. Internet

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

Internet

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Borrowed from English Internet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈtɛr.nɛt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛrnɛt
• Syllabification: In‧ter‧net

Proper noun

Internet m inan

1. the Internet

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• Internet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Internet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• internet

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Internet.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Internet f

1. World Wide Web (an information space on the Internet)

   Synonyms: web, rede, net

2. Internet (specific internet consisting of the global network of computers)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English Internet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /înternet/
• Hyphenation: In‧ter‧net

Proper noun

Ȉnternet m (Cyrillic spelling И̏нтернет)

1. Internet

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Internet.

Proper noun

Internet n (genitive Internets)

1. the (global) Internet