TWEET
What does "TWEET" mean?
A short high chirping sound made by a small bird.
Meanings
- A weak, thin chirping note of a small bird. A single tweet came from the hedge before the whole flock answered.
- To make such a chirping sound. Sparrows tweeted in the eaves at first light.
- A short message posted on the social platform formerly called Twitter (now X). Her tweet about the typo got more replies than the article itself. informal
- To post such a message online. He tweeted the score before the final whistle had even blown. informal
Did you know?
- The bird-chirp word 'tweet' was so reshaped by social media that the Oxford English Dictionary added its 'post online' verb sense in 2013, only seven years after Twitter launched.
Word origin
Imitative (onomatopoeic) of the thin sound of a small bird, recorded in English from the early 1800s; the social-media sense was coined for Twitter in 2006.
Remember it
TWEET is what a bird does and what a Twitter user does - both are short bursts you can't take back.
A little poem
One small bird, one note-
now a million thumbs repeat
its thin, borrowed cry.
haiku
Wordplay
- The canary said it never reads the news anymore - it just tweets.
What it teaches
The smallest sound can carry farthest once everyone agrees to listen for it.
Quick facts
What does TWEET mean?
A short high chirping sound made by a small bird.
Is TWEET a valid word?
Yes — TWEET is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is TWEET?
TWEET has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does TWEET come from?
Imitative (onomatopoeic) of the thin sound of a small bird, recorded in English from the early 1800s; the social-media sense was coined for Twitter in 2006.
What can TWEET teach us?
The smallest sound can carry farthest once everyone agrees to listen for it.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.