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Meaning of nerdom | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. The attitudes and behaviours of a nerd; nerdiness.
    colloquial, rare, uncountable
  2. Nerds considered as a group.
    colloquial, rare, uncountable

Examples

“When she [Valerie Mahaffey] was 17 she fell in love with a schoolmate named Ben: 'Together, we pulled each other out of nerddom,' she said.”
“The self-described "exemplar of nerdom" feels right at home with Carl Sagan's speculative science-fiction [title]”
“Even movies that first appear to add a promising element of nerdom always end up doing something dumb, like tarnishing a tense computer-based drama with idiotic and unusable (but oh so very sexy) 3D interfaces.”
“I still chuckle at some of [the] jokes that we targeted to very narrow slices of nerdom.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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