browser

See also: Browser

English

Etymology

browse +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹaʊzɚ/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: brows‧er
• Rhymes: -aʊzə(ɹ)

Noun

browser (plural browsers)

1. A person or animal who browses.

   Coordinate term: grazer

2. A person who examines goods for sale but purchases nothing.

   Antonym: nonbrowser

3. (computing) A web browser.
   • [1990 November 12, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, “WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project”, in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)‎^[1]:

     A program which provides access to the hypertext world we call a browser.]

Derived terms

• browser cache
• browser hijacking
• browserify
• browserish
• browserless
• browser narcotic
• cross-browser
• headless browser
• lockdown browser
• man-in-the-browser
• master browser
• mesobrowser
• microbrowser
• minibrowser
• nonbrowser
• potential browser
• web browser

 

Translations

web browser — see web browser

Further reading

• browser on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Browers

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English browser. First attested in 1993..

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bravsər/, [ˈbɹɑwsɐ]

Noun

browser c (singular definite browseren, plural indefinite browsere)

1. browser

Inflection

Declension of browser

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	browser	browseren	browsere	browserne
genitive	browsers	browserens	browseres	browsernes

See also

• browser on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English browser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɑu̯.zər/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: brow‧ser

Noun

browser m (plural browsers)

1. (Internet) A browser.

   Synonym: internetbrowser

Related terms

• browsen

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English browser.

Noun

browser m (invariable)

1. (computing) browser (software)

Spanish

Noun

browser m (plural browseres)

1. browser