online dating

See also: online-dating, Onlinedating, and Online-Dating

English

Etymology 1

From online +‎ dating.

Alternative forms

• OLD (abbreviation)

Noun

online dating (uncountable)

1. Dating over the Internet, typically using a website or app to find potential connections.

   Synonyms: Internet dating, cyberdating, hyperdating, e-dating

   • 2010 February 11, Scott James, “In the Calculations of Online Dating, Love Can Be Cruel”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     In the digital age, everything must at some point be reduced to this basic construct of choice: One or zero. Yes or no. On or off. Subscribers to online dating sites are forced to come up with a list of their desires. Red hair? Yes or no. Over 30 O.K.? Please check a box.

Derived terms

• online date (verb) (back-formation)

Related terms

• online date (noun)

Descendants

• → German: Onlinedating, Online-Dating

Translations

dating over the Internet

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 在線交友 / 在线交友 (zàixiàn jiāoyǒu)

• Finnish: nettideittailu, nettitreffailu, nettiseuranhaku
• German: Onlinedating (de) n

See also

• computer dating
• video dating
• speed dating
• online banking

Further reading

• online dating service on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “online dating”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “online dating”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

Etymology 2

From online date +‎ -ing.

Verb

online dating

1. present participle and gerund of online date