steampunk

Etymology
, by analogy with, coined by science-fiction writer Kevin Wayne Jeter (born 1950) in a 1987 letter to the magazine Locus in response to a review of his book Infernal Devices published the same year (see the quotation below).

Noun

 * 1)  A subgenre of science fiction that depicts advanced technology combined with Victorian style and aesthetics, such as steam-powered machines and vehicles, visible gears and screws and people dressed in 19th-century attires.
 * 2)  A writer of steampunk fiction.
 * 3)  A person cosplaying as a steampunk character.
 * 1)  A writer of steampunk fiction.
 * 2)  A person cosplaying as a steampunk character.
 * 1)  A person cosplaying as a steampunk character.
 * 1)  A person cosplaying as a steampunk character.

Translations

 * Belarusian: парапа́нк, стымпа́нк
 * Czech: steampunk
 * Esperanto: vaporpunko
 * German:
 * Irish: galphunc
 * Japanese: スチームパンク
 * Lithuanian: stimpankas
 * Marathi: स्टीमपंक
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: steampunk, ångpunk
 * Ukrainian: паропа́нк, стімпа́нк

Verb

 * 1)  To depict in a steampunk manner.

Etymology
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Noun

 * , a subgenre of science fiction

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  subgenre of speculative science fiction set in an anachronistic 19th-century society

Etymology
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