steampunk
Plural: steampunks
Noun
- 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.
- A writer of steampunk fiction.
- A person cosplaying as a steampunk character.
Verb
- To depict in a steampunk manner.
Origin / Etymology
From steam + -punk, by analogy with cyberpunk, coined by science-fiction writer Kevin Wayne Jeter (born 1950) in a 1987 letter to the magazine Locus in response to a review of his book Infernal Devices published the same year (see the quotation below).
Scrabble Score: 17
steampunk: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsteampunk: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
steampunk: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 21
steampunk: valid Words With Friends Word