noun
cyberspace
SEYE-buh-spays
noun
1
The virtual world of information and communication accessed through computer networks and the internet.
"Every day billions of people spend hours in cyberspace."
"The novel imagines a war fought entirely in cyberspace."
How to Use Cyberspace
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe internet and digital networks thought of as a kind of place you can enter, rather than just a tool you use.
Common pairings
navigate cyberspace
crime in cyberspace
Word Forms
cyberspaces plural
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Etymology
Coined by science-fiction writer William Gibson, blending cybernetics and space, first in his 1982 short story collection Burning Chrome and popularized in his 1984 novel Neuromancer.