tweet

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English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twiːt/
• Rhymes: -iːt

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

tweet (plural tweets)

Examples
the tweet of lovebirds (file)

1. The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
2. (Internet) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.
   • 2007, April 22, “Jason Pontin”, in Twitter takes instant messaging to an extreme‎^[1]:

     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 […]

Conjugation

Conjugation of tweet

infinitive	(to) tweet
	present tense	past tense
1st person singular	tweet	tweeted
2nd person singular	tweet, tweetest*
3rd person singular	tweets, tweeteth*
plural	tweet
subjunctive	tweet
imperative	tweet	—
participles	tweeting	tweeted
* Archaic or obsolete.

Translations

sound

• Catalan: piulada (ca) f
• Danish: pip (da) n, kvidder n
• Dutch: twiet
• Esperanto: pepo
• Estonian: siuts, säuts
• Finnish: piipitys (fi)
• French: gazouillis (fr) m, pépiement (fr) m
• Galician: chío m
• Georgian: ჭიკჭიკი (č̣iḳč̣iḳi), ჟღურტული (žɣurṭuli)
• German: Zwitschern n

• Hebrew: צִיּוּץ‎ m (tsiyúts)
• Irish: bíc f, gíog f, giolcadh m
• Malay: ciap-ciap, ciak-ciak
• Polish: ćwierkanie (pl) n, (of a bird) trel m
• Portuguese: pio (pt)
• Russian: чири́канье (ru) n (čiríkanʹje), щебета́нье (ru) n (ščebetánʹje), трель (ru) f (trelʹ)
• Spanish: piada (es) f, silbada (es) f
• Tagalog: siyap
• Turkish: cıvıldama (tr), cıvıltı (tr)
• Vietnamese: tiếng hót

internet: entry

• Arabic: تَغْرِيدَة‎ f (taḡrīda)
• Basque: txio (eu)
• Catalan: piulada (ca) f
• Danish: tweet (da) n
• Esperanto: pepo
• Estonian: säuts, tviit, tweet (et)
• Finnish: twiitti, tviitti, twiittaus
• French: tweet (fr) m, gazouillis (fr)
• Galician: chío m
• Georgian: ტვიტი (ṭviṭi)
• German: Tweet (de) m

• Hebrew: צִיּוּץ‎ m (tsiyúts)
• Hindi: ट्वीट m (ṭvīṭ)
• Icelandic: tíst n
• Irish: tvuít f
• Japanese: ツイート (tsuīto), つぶやき (tsubuyaki)
• Maori: tīhau
• Marathi: ट्वीट m (ṭvīṭa)
• Pashto: ټويټ‎ (ṭwíṭ)
• Portuguese: tuíte (pt) m
• Russian: твит (ru) m (tvit)
• Spanish: tuit (es) m, tuiteo (es) m

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
2. (transitive, intransitive, Internet) To post an update to Twitter.
   • 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian‎^[2]:

     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 Jan 25, BBC World Service, "Donald Trump: 'We will build Mexico border wall'", http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38740717 (Retrieved 2017-01-25)

     Mr Trump tweeted: "Big day planned on national security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!"

Derived terms

• retweet
• tweetup
• tweeter

Translations

to make a short high-pitched sound

• Catalan: piular (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鳴叫 (zh), 鸣叫 (zh) (míngjiào)

• Esperanto: pepi
• Estonian: säutsuma, siutsuma
• Finnish: piipittää
• Georgian: ჭიკჭიკებს (č̣iḳč̣iḳebs), ჟღურტულებს (žɣurṭulebs)
• German: zwitschern (de)
• Greek: κελαηδώ (el) (kelaïdó)

• Irish: bheith ag gíoglach, bheith ag giolcaireacht
• Japanese: さえずる (ja) (saezuru)
• Norman: tuiter (Jersey)
• Polish: ćwierkać (pl)
• Portuguese: piar (pt)
• Russian: щебета́ть (ru) (ščebetátʹ), чири́кать (ru) (čiríkatʹ)
• Spanish: piar (es)
• Tagalog: sumiyap
• Vietnamese: hót (vi)

internet: to post an update to Twitter

• Arabic: غَرَّدَ‎ (ḡarrada)
• Basque: txiokatu
• Catalan: piular (ca)
• Danish: tweete
• Dutch: twitteren (nl), tweeten (nl)
• Esperanto: pepi
• Estonian: säutsuma, tviitima, tweetima
• Finnish: twiitata, tviitata
• French: twitter (fr), twitterer, tweeter (fr), gazouiller (fr)
• Georgian: ტვიტავს (ṭviṭavs) (colloquial), დატვიტავს (daṭviṭavs) (colloquial)
• German: twittern (de), tweeten
• Hungarian: tweetel, csiripel (hu)
• Icelandic: tísta

• Ido: twitar
• Interlingua: twitterar
• Irish: tvuíteáil, bheith ag giolcaireacht (intransitive), giolc (transitive)
• Italian: cinguettare
• Japanese: ツイートする (tsuīto-suru), つぶやく (ja) (tsubuyaku)
• Macedonian: твита (tvita)
• Maori: tīhau
• Marathi: ट्वीट करणे (ṭvīṭa karṇe)
• Norman: tuiter (Jersey)
• Portuguese: twittar (pt), tuitar (pt)
• Russian: тви́тить (ru) impf (tvítitʹ), тви́тать impf (tvítatʹ), тви́тнуть (ru) pf (tvítnutʹ) (semelfactive)
• Spanish: tuitear (es), twittear
• Swedish: tvittra (sv), twittra (sv)

Further reading

• “'Tweet' 2009 Word of the Year, 'Google' Word of the Decade, as voted by American Dialect Society”, in (Please provide the title of the work)‎^[3], American Dialect Society, 2010-01-08

Interjection

tweet

1. An onomatopoeic of bird singing.

Translations

Translations

• Russian: чик-чирик (čik-čirik), чирик-чирик (čirik-čirik) (common), чив-чив (čiv-čiv) (rare)

• Vietnamese: líu lo (vi), líu la líu lo, líu lô (vi)

See also

• twitter
• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English tweet.

Noun

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 ...

   • 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.

Declension

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

tweet

1. imperative of tweete

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French

Noun

tweet m (plural tweets)

1. a tweet (a message on Twitter)

Synonyms

• (Twitter): twit

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• tuíte

Noun

tweet m (plural tweets)

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

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Spanish

Noun

tweet m (plural tweets)

1. tweet