Meaning

The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle..

Definitions by Sense

1. The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
2. (social media) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.
3. (social media, by extension) An entry on any microblogging service.
4. (intransitive) To produce a short high-pitched sound, similar to that of certain birds.
5. (ambitransitive, social media) To post an entry to Twitter.
6. (ambitransitive, social media, by extension) To post an entry to any microblogging site.
7. used to represent the sound of a bird twittering: twit.

Example Sentences

[Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it.

Every few seconds, a tweet appears and vanishes somewhere on the globe.

For example, as you edit a tweet in Twitter, the number of characters left is updated as you type.

A tweet can be received via SMS to your cell phone […]

He was watching the media coverage, talking to his lawyers. And we saw that because of his tweets on Truth Social, or his posts on Truth Social.

In Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative societies, one online rebel has rocked the Islamic establishment with tweeted allegations of corruption within the ruling royal family.

=Mr Trump tweeted: "Big day planned on national security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!"

First, an apology. Tweet in haste and repent at leisure. When I first heard about the idea, before I had properly examined it, I actually tweeted that this was [a] welcome 'innovation' from a state-controlled train operator.

Word Forms

• tweets
• tweeting
• tweeted
• twote
• twoten

Synonyms for tweet

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When Should You Use Tweet?

Use tweet when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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