influencer

influence +‎ -er

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnflu.ənsə(ɹ)/

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influencer (plural influencers)

1. A person who or a thing which influences. [from 17th c.]
2. (social media, marketing) A person who is able to influence consumption, lifestyle, and/or political preferences of their online audience by creating and/or engaging social media content, often as a part of a marketing campaign.

   Antonym: deinfluencer

   Coordinate term: creator

   • 2018 November 11, Sapna Maheshwari, “Are You Ready for the Nanoinfluencers?”, in New York Times‎:

     By now you have probably heard of influencers, that group of internet-famous people who have more than a million social media followers and can make big money by plugging various brands. And you may have even heard of microinfluencers, who do the same thing for a still sizable but somewhat smaller social media audience — from the tens to low hundreds of thousands.

   • 2020 August 4, Sean Stein Smith, “Blockchain, TikTok, And The Influencer Economy - What Are The Connections?”, in Forbes‎:

     The idea of an influencer economy or streaming economy might have caused eyes to roll just a couple years ago, but the reality is that this segment of the economy is growing fast. More importantly, it is the part of the economy (and type of engagement) that is most appealing to the increasingly important millennial and Gen-Z cohorts.

   • 2020 December 11, Taylor Lorenz, “The New Influencer Capital of America”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Over the past year, mansions full of young influencers have proliferated across the United States (in Los Angeles, Dallas and Las Vegas) and around the world (France, the U.K., Mexico, Spain and Russia).

• thought leader
• trendsetter

• → Azerbaijani: təsirçi (calque)
• → Dutch: influencer
• → French: influenceur (calque)
• → German: Influencer
• → Japanese: インフルエンサー
• → Hungarian: influencer, influenszer
• → Polish: influencer
• → Spanish: influencer
• → Portuguese: influenciador (calque)

Borrowed from English influencer.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.fluˌɛn.sər/

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• Hyphenation: in‧flu‧en‧cer

influencer m (plural influencers, diminutive influencertje n)

1. (social media, marketing) influencer

From influence +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fly.ɑ̃.se/

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influencer

1. (transitive) influence (to exert an influence upon)

   Near-synonym: influer sur

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

• influençable

• “influencer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English influencer.

• IPA^(key): /in.fluˈɛn.sɛr/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnsɛr
• Syllabification: in‧flu‧en‧cer

influencer m pers (female equivalent influencerka)

1. influencer (influential person on social media)

• influencer in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English influencer.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /inˈflwenθeɾ/ [ĩɱˈflwẽn̟.θeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /inˈflwenseɾ/ [ĩɱˈflwẽn.seɾ]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -enθeɾ
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -enseɾ
• Syllabification: in‧fluen‧cer

influencer m or f by sense (plural influencers)

1. influencer

   Synonym: influenciador

   • 2021 January 26, María Sánchez Sánchez, “¿Buscas unas botas de agua baratas y estilosas? Este es el modelo que llevan las ‘influencers’”, in El País‎, Madrid, →ISSN:

     La ropa y calzado de equitación –que ha sido una inspiración constante en las colecciones de las grandes firmas de moda– se ha dejado notar también esta temporada en las propuestas que han hecho distintas influencers en sus redes sociales.

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