/ˈfeɪsbʊk/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.90 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A reference book or electronic directory containing the photographs and names of various individuals.
noun
A college publication distributed at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students become acquainted with each other.
verb
Alternative letter-case form of Facebook.
Example Sentences
- "He had gotten the call from the casino-a client who had recognized them from the facebook-and had flown down to the Bahamas to teach them a lesson."
- "The shipment of facebooks will be distributed to the freshmen during orientation and move-in-week."
- "In the last month, since he’d embarked on projects like digitally scanning Melissa Paquette’s face from a freshman facebook and suturing her head to obscene downloaded images and tinkering with these images pixel by pixel (and the hours did fly by when you were tinkering with pixels), he’d read no books at all."
- "Kevin was surprised to see his own face on the card. It was an authentic California ID under the name Oliver Chen. "Where'd you get the picture?" Kevin asked. "Your MIT facebook.""
- "There is no interests section in the facebook. You know why? No one wants to flip through a book to find out which girls play chess."
- "A less subtle way of navigating the relationship between the public and the obscure is found in subtweeting or vaguebooking (vague facebooking), the art of posting elliptically about a social situation without naming names."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Proto-Italic *-jēs Latin -iēs Latin faciēs Late Latin facia Old French facebor. Middle English face English face Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.? Proto-Germanic *bōks Proto-West Germanic *bōk Old English bōc Middle English bok English book English namebookinflu. English facebook From face + book, likely modelled after namebook.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfeɪsbʊk/
- British English: /ˈfeɪsbʊk/