Dictionary Definition
user
Noun
1 a person who makes use of a thing; someone who
uses or employs something
2 a person who uses something or someone
selfishly or unethically [syn: exploiter]
3 a person who takes drugs [syn: drug user,
substance
abuser]
User Contributed Dictionary
Pronunciation
- Rhymes with: -uːzə(r)
Noun
- One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer.
- A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs.
- In the context of "computing": A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account.
- An exploiter, an abusive user (a person who uses something or someone unfairly, selfishly and/or unethically).
Synonyms
- (one that unfairly takes advantage of or exploits): parasite
Derived terms
Translations
one who uses something, a consumer
- Bosnian: korisnik
- Croatian: korisnik
- Danish: bruger , konsument
- Finnish: käyttäjä, kuluttaja
- French: consommateur, utilisateur
- German: Benutzer, Verbraucher
- Icelandic: notandi
- Italian: utente
- Japanese: (shiyōsha), ユーザ (yūza), (riyōsha)
- Latvian: lietotājs , jūzeris
- Russian: потребитель (potr'ebít'el') , клиент (klijént)
- Scots: uiser
- Slovene: uporabnik
- Swedish: användare , brukare
one who uses drugs
- Danish: misbruger
- Finnish: väärinkäyttäjä
- German: Drogenkonsument
- Icelandic: eiturlyfjanotandi , dópisti
- Swedish: brukare , missbrukare (addictive use)
person who uses a computer
- Bosnian: korisnik
- Croatian: korisnik
- Czech: uživatel
- Danish: bruger
- Finnish: käyttäjä
- French: utilisateur, utilisatrice
- German: Benutzer
- Icelandic: tölvunotandi , notandi
- Italian: utente
- Japanese: (riyōsha)
- Latvian: lietotājs , jūzeris
- Russian: пользователь (pól'zovat'el') , юзер (júz'er) slang, юзверь (júzv'er') slang, юзверг (júzv'erg) slang
- Scots: uiser
- Swedish: användare
an exploiter
- Danish: udbytter
- Finnish: hyväksikäyttäjä
- Russian: манипулятор (manipul'átor)
- ttbc Dutch: gebruiker , gebruikster
- ttbc Polish: użytkownik , użytkowniczka
- ttbc Portuguese: utilizador , usuário (Brazilian Portuguese)
- ttbc Slovene: uporabnik
- ttbc Spanish: usuario
- ttbc Turkish: kullanıcı, tüketici, kullanan
French
Etymology
From usare.Verb
userDerived terms
Extensive Definition
- For information on Wikipedia user accounts, see Wikipedia:Username policy. For Wikipedia users, see .
User can refer to:
- User (computing), one who uses a computer system. In order to identify oneself, a user has an account (a user account) and a username (also called a screen name, handle, nickname, or nick on some systems).
- End-user, one who uses a product in economics and commerce.
- End-user (computer science)
- User (telecommunications), one who employs the services provided by a telecommunication system
- USER, a recording artist
- User (drug), as in one who uses illegal drugs.
See also
user in German: User
user in Spanish: Usuario
user in Persian: کاربر
user in French: Utilisateur
user in Korean: 사용자
user in Interlingua (International Auxiliary
Language Association): Usator
user in Japanese: ユーザ
user in Dutch: Gebruiker
user in Kölsch: Medmaacher (Watt ėßß
datt?)
user in Swedish: Användare
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
LSD user, acidhead, addict, alcoholic, buyer, chain smoker, cocaine
sniffer, cokie, consumer, cubehead, dipsomaniac, dope fiend,
doper, droit du seigneur,
drug abuser, drug addict, drug user, drunkard, employer, enjoyer, enjoyment of property,
fiend, freak, glue sniffer, habitual, head, heavy smoker, hophead, hype, imperfect usufruct, junkie, marijuana smoker,
methhead, narcotics
addict, operator,
owner, perfect usufruct,
pillhead, pothead, purchaser, right of use,
snowbird, speed freak,
tripper, usufruct