Steampunk

Quick meaning: Steampunk is a noun meaning (countable) A writer of steampunk fiction.

Meaning

(countable) A writer of steampunk fiction.

More Meanings

1. (countable, cosplay) A person cosplaying as a steampunk character.
2. (transitive) To depict in a steampunk manner.
3. (uncountable) A subgenre of science fiction that depicts advanced technology combined with Victorian style and aesthetics, such as steam-powered machines and vehicles, visible gears and screws and people dressed in 19th-century attires.

Example Sentences

There's railroad trains, a lot of steam-driven stuff, but that's about it. More ‘steam punk’, I suppose.

It wound up being an overwhelmingly positive experience that made me appreciate the steampunks around me even more.

The [Arboath North Signal Box] locking room's collection of chains, pulleys and wires resembles the inside of a piano, stretching to the 72-levered frame above. Lovers of steampunk will find it especially pleasing.

Personally, I think Victorian fantasies are going to be the next big thing, as long as we can come up with a fitting collective term for Powers, [James] Blaylock and myself. Something based on the appropriate technology of the era; like steam-punks, perhaps.

Word Forms

• steampunks
• steampunking
• steampunked

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