See also: reddit
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
The website was founded on June 23, 2005, by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, and the name is a play on words for read it (with read in the past tense).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹɛdɪt/
- Rhymes: -ɛdɪt
- Hyphenation: Red‧dit
Proper noun
- (Internet) An American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Verb
Reddit (third-person singular simple present Reddits, present participle Redditing, simple past and past participle Reddited)
- (Internet slang) To be mentioned 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.
Alternative forms
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁɛ.dit/, /ʁe.dit/
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (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/
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