steampunk
A subgenre of science fiction that depicts advanced technology combined with Victorian…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.
» Airships are a common trope in steampunk works.
Meaning
3 senses(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.
Steampunk
паропа́нкparopánk, стимпа́нкstimpánk
паропа́нкparopánk, стімпа́нкstimpánk
A subgenre of speculative science fiction set in an anachronistic 19th century society.
(countable)A writer of steampunk fiction.
(countable)A person cosplaying as a steampunk character.
Examples
8 sentencesAirships are a common trope in steampunk works.
The game takes place in a steampunk world.
ruИгра происходит в мире стимпанка.
Her underwear was a bit too steampunk for me.
I have steampunk tendencies, as I like collecting antiques.
This game has a steampunk setting, so expect to wear top hats and smoking jackets.
Translations
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Origin
From steam + -punk, by analogy with cyberpunk, coined by science-fiction writer Kevin WaynFrom 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).
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Forms
plural: steampunks| Singular | steampunk |
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Word family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
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