Internet

Etymology
, shortening of.

Proper noun



 * 1) The specific internet consisting of a global network of computers that communicate using Internet Protocol (IP) and that use  (BGP) to identify the best paths to route those communications.
 * 2) * 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreword", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi
 * [I]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, reserving 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.
 * 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.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:Internet

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: ndërrjet, internet
 * American Sign Language: Open8@Finger-TipUp-Open8@CenterChesthigh-TipUp Twist-Twist
 * Amharic: ኢንተርኔት
 * Antillean Creole: entènèt
 * Arabic:, شُبَّاكَة
 * Armenian:, համացանց
 * Assamese: ইণ্টাৰনেট
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܪܵܣܢܵܘܠܵܐ, ܐܝܼܢܛܲܪܢܹܛ
 * Azerbaijani: internet
 * Bashkir: интернет
 * Basque: Internet, Sare
 * Belarusian: інтэрнэ́т
 * Bengali: ,
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: И́нтернет, Мре́жата
 * Burmese:
 * Carpathian Rusyn: інтерне́т
 * Catalan: ,
 * Central Dusun: internet
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏏᎳᏕᏫᏒᎢ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 互聯網, 網際網絡
 * Mandarin:, ,  , ,
 * Chukchi: интернет
 * Chuvash: тетел, интернет
 * Cornish: kesrosweyth
 * Corsican: Internet
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dinka: Arekwël
 * Dutch:
 * Emilian: raid däl raid
 * Esperanto: Interreto,, interreta
 * Estonian:, , , veeb, võrk
 * Faroese: Alnetið, Internet
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: Internet
 * Georgian: ინტერნეტი
 * German: ,
 * Central Franconian: Engornät
 * Greek: Διαδίκτυο, ,
 * Guaraní: Ñanduti Guasu, Momarandu Ñanduti
 * Gujarati: આંતરજાળ
 * Haitian Creole: entènèt
 * Hausa: yanar gizo
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi: अंतर्जाल, इन्टरनेट
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Hunsrik: Internet
 * Icelandic: Veraldarvefurinn,, netið
 * Ido:, ,
 * Indonesian: Internet
 * Interlingua: Internet
 * Inuktitut: ᖃᕆᓴᐅᔭᒃᑯᑦ ᑎᑎᕋᖅᓯᒪᔪᑦ
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Jamaican Creole: Intanet
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kalmyk: сүлҗән
 * Kannada: ,
 * Kazakh: интернет
 * Khmer: អ៊ីនធឺណិត, អន្តរៈបណ្ដាញ
 * Korean: ; , ,  누리망(網)
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ອິນເຕີເນັດ
 * Latgalian: škārsteiklys
 * Latin: interrete
 * Latvian: internets, starptīkls
 * Lithuanian: internetas, žiniatinklis
 * Low German:
 * Dutch Low Saxon: draod, internet
 * German Low German: Internet, Internett, Nett
 * Macedonian: интернет,
 * Malay: Internet
 * Malayalam:
 * Manx: Eddyr-voggyl
 * Maori: ipurangi
 * Marathi: आंतरजाल
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: интернет
 * Mirandese: Anternete
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠢᠨ᠋ᠲ᠋ᠧᠷᠨᠧᠲ
 * Navajo: Béésh Łichíiʼii Bee Ééhoozinígíí, hiiłos
 * Nepali: अन्तरजाल,
 * Norman: Enternette
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, , nettet
 * Nynorsk: internett, Internett, nettet
 * Odia: ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ
 * Pashto: انټرنېټ
 * Persian:
 * Dari: اِنْتَرْنیت
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Piedmontese: Ragnà
 * Plautdietsch: Internet
 * Polish:, międzysieć,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Quechua: T'inkinakusqa llikakuna
 * Romagnol: raid däl raid
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sango: Gbândasango
 * Santali: ᱚᱱᱛᱚᱨ ᱡᱟᱞᱟᱢ
 * Scottish Gaelic: eadar-lìon, Eadar-lìon
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: и̏нтернет
 * Roman: ȉnternet
 * Silesian: mjyndzynec, internec
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak: sieť, Internet
 * Slovene: medmrežje
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: Internet
 * Upper Sorbian: Internet
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: Internet
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:, интернет
 * Telugu: ఇంటర్నెట్,
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཀུག་ཁུག་གུག་ངུག
 * Tigrinya: ኢንተርነት,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: internet
 * Udmurt: вотэс
 * Ukrainian: інтерне́т
 * Urdu: اِنْٹَرْنیٹ, شَبَکَہ
 * Uyghur: ئىنتېرنېت
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: in-tơ-nét, mạng toàn cầu, liên mạng,
 * Volapük: bevüresod, vüresod, Bevüresod, Vüresod
 * Võro: ilmavõrk
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: ynternet
 * Yiddish: אינטערנעץ, אינטערנעט
 * Zhuang: hulenzvangj, vangjdoxlienz

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) the

Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from.

Proper noun

 * 1)  the Internet

Etymology
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Proper noun

 * 1) the Internet

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

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) internet

Usage notes

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

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) internet

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Proper noun

 * 1)  the

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) Internet

Etymology
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Proper noun

 * 1) the

Etymology
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Proper noun

 * 1) World Wide Web (an information space on the Internet)
 * 2)  (specific internet consisting of the global network of computers)
 * 1)  (specific internet consisting of the global network of computers)

Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from.

Proper noun

 * 1) the (global)