webchat

A conversation that takes place, usually in text, over the World Wide Web.

Noun

  1. A conversation that takes place, usually in text, over the World Wide Web.
    • Some webchats that deliver a real-time feeling require […] plug-ins, which are mini-software programs that you need to download from the Web onto your computer so your Web browser can launch into chat[…] - 1998, Aliza...
    • Avon and Somerset Constabulary Interactive webchat (9 February 2007) - 2007, Malcolm Coulthard, Alison Johnson, An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in Evidence, page 216:

Origin

From web + chat.

Forms

webchats web chat

Verb

  1. To take part in such a conversation.
    • This was the case with Antonio Rodolfo Junior, Braskem's PVC Products and Services Manager, who spent nearly an hour every evening webchatting with his wife and two children, aged 4 and 6, back in Sao Paulo. - 2005,...

Forms

webchats webchatting webchatted web chat