Wiktionary

tweet

See also: Tweet

English

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the tweet of lovebirds

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit (noun), twitter (verb).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /twiːt/
  • Rhymes: -iːt
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

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tweet (plural tweets)

  1. The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
    • 1934 April 7, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 104:
      [Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it.
  2. (social media) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter. [since 2007]
    • 2007 April 22, Jason Pontin, “Twitter takes instant messaging to an extreme”, in International Herald-Tribune‎[2]:
      Every few seconds, a tweet appears and vanishes somewhere on the globe.
    • 2008, Wendy Chisholm, Matthew May, Universal Design for Web Applications:
      For example, as you edit a tweet in Twitter, the number of characters left is updated as you type.
    • 2008, Chris Seibold, Big Book of Apple Hacks:
      A tweet can be received via SMS to your cell phone […]
  3. (social media, by extension) An entry on any microblogging service.
    • 2023 August 3, Kristen Holmes, The Lead with Jake Tapper‎[3], CNN:
      He was watching the media coverage, talking to his lawyers. And we saw that because of his tweets on Truth Social, or his posts on Truth Social.

Translations

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internet: entry

Verb

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tweet (third-person singular simple present tweets, present participle tweeting, simple past tweeted or (Internet, rare, humorous) twote, past participle tweeted or (Internet, rare, humorous) twoten)

  1. (intransitive) To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
    • 1934 April 7, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 104:
      [Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it.
  2. (transitive, intransitive, social media) To post an update to Twitter. [since 2007]
    • 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian‎[4]:
      In Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative societies, one online rebel has rocked the Islamic establishment with tweeted allegations of corruption within the ruling royal family.
    • 2017 January 25, “Donald Trump: 'We will build Mexico border wall'”, in BBC World Service‎[5], retrieved 2017-01-25:
      Mr Trump tweeted: "Big day planned on national security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!"
    • 2024 February 7, Christian Wolmar, “LNER's crazy idea will price more people off the railway”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 44:
      First, an apology. Tweet in haste and repent at leisure. When I first heard about the idea, before I had properly examined it, I actually tweeted that this was [a] welcome 'innovation' from a state-controlled train operator.
  3. (transitive, intransitive, social media, by extension) To post an update to any microblogging site.
    • 2023 September 17, Lou Kettering, “Federal prosecutors in DC 2020 election interference case request order to prohibit Trump making ‘inflammatory’ and ‘misleading’ statements”, in Jurist‎[6]:
      In response to the motion, Trump tweeted on Truth Social
    • 2024 April 17, Doktor Zoom, “New York Times Joins Chris Rufo In Mean Girls Finger-Snapping At NPR CEO”, in Wonkette‎[7]:
      As Georgetown public policy prof Dan Moynihan tweeted on Bluesky yesterday, the editors of the Times “are not falling for [Rufo’s] game, they are co-producing it.”

Derived terms

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Translations

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internet: to post an update to Twitter

Interjection

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tweet

  2. Used to represent the sound of a bird twittering: twit.
    • 1977, David Byrne (lyrics and music), “Love → Building On Fire”, in Talking Heads: 77, performed by Talking Heads:
      I've got two loves / And they go tweet (×9) like little birds

Translations

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Craig Hockenberry (2013 June 28) “The Origin of Tweet”, in furbo.org‎[1], archived from the original on 2013-07-02

Further reading

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  •   tweet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “'Tweet' 2009 Word of the Year, 'Google' Word of the Decade, as voted by American Dialect Society”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[8], American Dialect Society, 2010 January 8

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English tweet.

Noun

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tweet m (plural tweets)

  1. tweet
    Synonyms: piulada, tuit

Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English tweet.

Noun

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tweet

  1. tweet (Twitter)
    • 2014, Caspar Eric, 7 / 11, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:
      ... og at du lyver i dine tweets / ... / jeg skriver et tweet med våde fingre / ... / og der er 7 personer der citerer tweeten ...
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 2015, Anna Erelle, Forklædt som jihad-brud, Art People, →ISBN:
      David Thomsons kontakter synes, hans historie er for tyk, og han har trukket tweetet tilbage.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

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Declension of tweet
either
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tweet tweeten
tweetet 		tweets tweetsene
tweetene
genitive tweets tweetens
tweetets 		tweets' tweetsenes
tweetenes

Verb

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tweet

  1. imperative of tweete

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English tweet

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tweet m (plural tweets, diminutive tweetje n)

  1. tweet (Twitter message)
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Pronunciation

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Noun

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tweet m (plural tweets)

  1. a tweet (a message on Twitter)
    Synonym: twit

Polish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /twit/
  • Rhymes: -it
  • Syllabification: tweet

Noun

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tweet m inan

  1. (Internet) tweet (entry posted on Twitter)

Declension

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Declension of tweet
singular plural
nominative tweet tweety
genitive tweetu tweetów
dative tweetowi tweetom
accusative tweet tweety
instrumental tweetem tweetami
locative tweecie tweetach
vocative tweecie tweety

Derived terms

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noun
verb
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noun

Further reading

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  • tweet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • tweet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /tuˈi.t͡ʃi/ [tʊˈi.t͡ʃi], (faster pronunciation) /ˈtwi.t͡ʃi/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /tuˈi.te/ [tʊˈi.te], (faster pronunciation) /ˈtwi.te/

Noun

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tweet m (plural tweets)

  1. (Internet) tweet (entry posted on Twitter)
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Spanish

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Noun

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tweet m (plural tweets)

  1. tweet

Swedish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English tweet.

Noun

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tweet c

  1. tweet (message on Twitter)

Declension

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Declension of tweet 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tweet tweeten tweetar tweetarna
Genitive tweets tweetens tweetars tweetarnas
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Further reading

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Turkish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

Noun

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tweet (definite accusative tweeti, plural tweetler)

  1. (Internet) tweet (entry posted on Twitter)

Declension

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Inflection
Nominative tweet
Definite accusative tweeti
Singular Plural
Nominative tweet tweetler
Definite accusative tweeti tweetleri
Dative tweete tweetlere
Locative tweette tweetlerde
Ablative tweetten tweetlerden
Genitive tweetin tweetlerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular tweetim tweetlerim
2nd singular tweetin tweetlerin
3rd singular tweeti tweetleri
1st plural tweetimiz tweetlerimiz
2nd plural tweetiniz tweetleriniz
3rd plural tweetleri tweetleri
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular tweetimi tweetlerimi
2nd singular tweetini tweetlerini
3rd singular tweetini tweetlerini
1st plural tweetimizi tweetlerimizi
2nd plural tweetinizi tweetlerinizi
3rd plural tweetlerini tweetlerini
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular tweetime tweetlerime
2nd singular tweetine tweetlerine
3rd singular tweetine tweetlerine
1st plural tweetimize tweetlerimize
2nd plural tweetinize tweetlerinize
3rd plural tweetlerine tweetlerine
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular tweetimde tweetlerimde
2nd singular tweetinde tweetlerinde
3rd singular tweetinde tweetlerinde
1st plural tweetimizde tweetlerimizde
2nd plural tweetinizde tweetlerinizde
3rd plural tweetlerinde tweetlerinde
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular tweetimden tweetlerimden
2nd singular tweetinden tweetlerinden
3rd singular tweetinden tweetlerinden
1st plural tweetimizden tweetlerimizden
2nd plural tweetinizden tweetlerinizden
3rd plural tweetlerinden tweetlerinden
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular tweetimin tweetlerimin
2nd singular tweetinin tweetlerinin
3rd singular tweetinin tweetlerinin
1st plural tweetimizin tweetlerimizin
2nd plural tweetinizin tweetlerinizin
3rd plural tweetlerinin tweetlerinin
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