Usually means: Exchange of messages through text.
Definitions Related words Phrases (New!) Mentions Lyrics History Colors (New!)
We found 53 dictionaries that define the word chat:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. chat: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. chat, chat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chat: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chat, chat: Wordnik
  7. chat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. CHAT, chat: Wiktionary
  9. chat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Chat, chat, chat: Dictionary.com
  13. chat: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. chat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Chat (bird), Chat (magazine), Chat (mining), Chat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Chat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. chat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. chat: Rhymezone
  19. chat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. chat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CHAT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Chat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. chat: Free Dictionary
  24. chat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. chat: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. Chat: The Word Detective
  27. chat: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chat: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. chat: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. CHAt, chat: CCI Computer
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. CNET Internet Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  6. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  7. Chat: Linktionary Networking Glossary
  8. Webopedia (No longer online)
  9. chat: Hacking Lexicon
  10. Data Formats and Their Sugggested File Extensions (No longer online)
  11. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  12. chat: Encyclopedia
  13. CHAT: SELF PACED INTERNET GUIDE

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. CHAT: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. chat: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chat, chat, chat, chat, chat, chat, chat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. chat: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chat: Poker Terms

(Note: See chating as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
)
American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To be engaged in informal conversation.
verb:  To talk more than a few words.
verb:  (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
verb:  (informal, slang, often as chatting) To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).
verb:  To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.
verb:  (by extension, Philippines) To send a text message via Facebook Messenger instead of via SMS.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
noun:  (Internet, uncountable, with or without "the") A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
noun:  (metonymically, video games) The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.
noun:  (by extension, nonstandard, humorous) Familiar term of address for users on social media other than a chat room, as in "guys."
noun:  (countable) Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
noun:  (countable) Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
noun:  A small potato, such as is given to swine.
noun:  (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
noun:  (British, Australia, New Zealand, World War I military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
noun:  Alternative form of chaat [Any savory snack, sold from a roadside stall in India, or served as a starter in an Indian restaurant.]
noun:  Acronym of cultural-historical activity theory.

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:

Phrases:

Adjectives:

Colors:
    blue,     green,     yellow,     orange,     red,     purple,     pink,     teal,     cyan,     magenta



Word origin

Words similar to chat

Usage examples for chat

Idioms related to chat

Wikipedia articles (New!)

Popular adjectives describing chat

Words that often appear near chat

Rhymes of chat

Invented words related to chat

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:

Phrases:

Adjectives:

Colors:
    blue,     green,     yellow,     orange,     red,     purple,     pink,     teal,     cyan,     magenta



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.



List phrases that spell out chat 




Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Compound Your Joy   Threepeat   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Help


Our daily word games Threepeat and Compound Your Joy are going strong. Bookmark and enjoy!