newsgroup

English

Etymology

From news +‎ group.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnuzˌɡɹup/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

newsgroup (plural newsgroups)

1. A repository on a computer network where people can post messages, usually about a single subject.
   • 1998 November, Tim Somheil, chapter 6, in Hostile Proximity (The Executioner; 239), Toronto, Ont.: Worldwide Library, →ISBN, page 75:

     “Most of it’s garbage and we’re not even bothering to translate it. There’s also a substantial amount of material downloaded from the alt.anarchy and alt.chaos.communist Internet newsgroups. Interesting reading but not exactly pertinent,” Brognola said.

   • 2003, Sven Junghagen, Henrik C. J. Linderoth, Intelligent Management in the Knowledge Economy:

     Some of the users are 'old timers'; they have been around in the newsgroup for several years […]

Synonyms

• froup, newsfroup (humorous)
• Usegroup

Derived terms

• newsfroup
• newsgrouper
• newsgroupie

Translations

repository for posting messages on a computer network

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 新聞組 / 新闻组 (zh) (xīnwénzǔ)

• Dutch: nieuwsgroep (nl) m or f
• Finnish: uutisryhmä (fi)
• German: Newsgroup (de) f
• Japanese: ニュースグループ (nyūsugurūpu)
• Korean: 뉴스그룹 (nyuseugeurup)
• Macedonian: гру́па за ве́сти f (grúpa za vésti)
• Russian: гру́ппа новосте́й f (grúppa novostéj), ньюсгру́п m (nʹjusgrúp), ньюсгру́ппа f (nʹjusgrúppa)

See also

• Usenet

Anagrams

• newgroups