online

• on-line

1950, from on +‎ line.

• Attributive:
  • enPR: ŏn'līn"
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒnlaɪn/
    • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔnlaɪn/
    • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɑnlaɪn/

      • Audio (California):

        (file)

    • (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɔnlɑɪn/
• Predicative:
  • enPR: ŏnlīn'
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɒnˈlaɪn/
    • (General American) IPA^(key): /ɔnˈlaɪn/
    • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɑnˈlaɪn/
    • (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɔnˈlɑɪn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn

online (comparative more online, superlative most online)

1. Of a system: connected (generally electrically) to a larger network.
   1. Of a generator or power plant: connected to the grid.
   2. Of a computer: actively connected to the Internet or to some other communications service.

      Is this modem online?

2. Available over, or delivered from, the Internet.
   • 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8837, page 74:

     In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.

   • 2024 May 4, John Naughton, “The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     The online world was meant to be an open system but has become dominated by huge corporations.

   I prefer to read online newspapers.

3. Connected to the Internet.

   I'll be online tonight, so I'll be able to reply to your email.

4. Available on a computer system, even if not networked.

   Press the F1 key to access the online help.

   The program comes with an online manual, supplied on compact disc.

5. Of a system: active, particularly building facilities (such as power) or a factory or power plant.

   The power is online.

   Once this factory comes online, it will double car production in our country!

6. (slang) Immersed in Internet culture. (Usually modified by an intensifier such as extremely or terminally)

   terminally online

   • 2019, A.O. Scott, “'The Image Book' Review: Godard Looks at Violence, and Movies”, in The New York Times‎^[3]:

     To borrow an idiom from the extremely online, late Godard is a mood.

   • 2025 April 27, Lisa Miller, Maggie Shannon, “When a Child’s Life Becomes the Family Business”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN:

     “If we were doing a family vlog inside the house, I would not want my feet in the video. At all.” He would wear socks. He is very online. He sees the conversations.

• (antonym(s) of “connected to larger network”): offline
• (antonym(s) of “available on a computer system”): hardcopy
• (antonym(s) of “online business”): brick and mortar
• (antonym(s) of “slang”): living under a rock

online (not comparable)

1. While online; while in a running or active state, or connected to the Internet.

   He works online.

   • 2004, Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess, Napoleon Dynamite (motion picture), spoken by Kip (Aaron Ruell):

     Well, things are getting pretty serious right now. I mean, we chat online for, like, two hours every day so I guess you could say things are gettin' pretty serious.

online (third-person singular simple present onlines, present participle onlining, simple past and past participle onlined)

1. (computing, transitive) To bring (a system, etc.) online; to promote to an active or running state.
   • 2013, John Clarke, Oracle Exadata Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, page 219:

     The output in Listing 8-2 shows your disk group status prior to onlining the disks, the commands to online your disks, and the status after onlining.

• come online

• El Nino, El Niño, Lonnie

• on line (chiefly adverbial and predicative, superseded)
• on-line (chiefly adverbial and predicative, superseded)

Borrowed from English online. The forms on line and on-line are older in Dutch.

• IPA^(key): /ɔnˈlɑi̯n/, (chiefly attributive and in compounds) /ˈɔn.lɑi̯n/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: on‧li‧ne

online

1. online (on, via or connected to the Internet or another network) [from 1960s]

online (not comparable)

1. online (on, via, connected or related to the Internet or another network) [from 1960s]

Declension of online
uninflected	online
inflected	online
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		online
indefinite	m./f. sing.	online
	n. sing.	online
	plural	online
definite		online
partitive		onlines

From English online.

• IPA^(key): /ˈonlɑi̯n/, [ˈo̞nlɑ̝i̯n]
• Rhymes: -onlɑin

online

1. ; used also as modifier in compound terms, often with a hyphen and as uninflected attribute

   Haluan hoitaa pankkiasiani online.

   I want to handle my banking business online.

   Olen X-pankin online-asiakas.

   I'm an online customer of X Bank.

• online-kaupankäynti
• onlinejärjestelmä

• loinen

Borrowed from English online.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔnlaɪ̯n/

• Audio:

  (file)

online (indeclinable)

1. online

   Antonym: offline

   • 2024, Artur-Axel Wandtke, Die Unvollendete. Roman, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, →ISBN, page 63:

     »[…] Der Widerspruch zwischen arm und reich wird erst gelöst, wenn nicht der Geldreichtum Maßstab aller menschlichen Werte in der analogen und online Welt ist«, sagte Robert.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “online” in Duden online
• “online” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “online” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Borrowed from English online.

• IPA^(key): [ˈonlaːjn]
• Hyphenation: on‧line
• Rhymes: -aːjn

online (not comparable)

1. online

Borrowed from English online.

online (invariable) (Also: on line, on-line)

1. online

• Linneo, lenoni, linone, nonile

Borrowed from English online.

• IPA^(key): /onlain/
• Rhymes: -lain, -ain, -in

online

1. (proscribed)

   Synonyms: (proscribed) atas talian, dalam talian

   Antonym: luar talian

   Permainan online ― Online games

• on-line, on line, onlajn

Unadapted borrowing from English online.

• IPA^(key): /ɔnˈlajn/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ajn
• Syllabification: on‧line

online (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. (Internet) online (available over the Internet)

   Coordinate term: offline

online (not comparable)

1. (Internet) online (performed over Internet)

   Coordinate term: offline

online m inan

1. (colloquial, Internet) online (Internet-connected mode of operation)

   Coordinate term: offline

• online in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• online in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• on-line

Unadapted borrowing from English online.

online (invariable)

1. online (connected to the Internet)

   Synonym: conectado

   O computador está online.

   The computer is online.

2. online (which takes place over the Internet)

   Synonyms: eletrónico, em linha, virtual

   Comunicação online.

   Online communication.

online

1. online

   Synonym: em linha

   • 2024, Ana Carolina Ulhoa da Veiga et al., anonymous quotee, “Repercussões da pandemia COVID-19 na atuação de psicólogos clínicos: possibilidades e dificuldades da categoria”, in Cleber Bianchessi, editor, Pesquisas e estudos em Psicologia: Ciência, Profissão e Ensino, volume 2, Curitiba: Bagai, →DOI, →ISBN, page 44:

     Tinha dificuldade em fazer alguns atendimentos online, fazer manejos online. Foi algo que eu tive que aprender a fazer, porque era isso, nossa nova realidade no mundo. Então eu senti esse impacto.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “on-line”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “online”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “on-line”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “on-line”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

Unadapted borrowing from English online.

• IPA^(key): /ˌonˈlain/ [ˌõnˈlãĩn]
• Rhymes: -ain

online (invariable)

1. online

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• on-line

Unadapted borrowing from English online. First attested in 1969.^[1]

online (not comparable)

1. online.

   Synonym: uppkopplad

   • 2023 May 10, “Unga i våldsamma relationer söker ofta stöd online [Young people in violent relationships often seek support online]”, in Forskning:

     En ny studie har undersökt våld mot unga i nära parrelationer. Studien, som genomförts av forskare vid Stockholms universitet, visar att behovet att söka anonymt stöd online är stort.

     A new study has investigated violence against young people in intimate partner relationships. The study, which was carried out by researchers at Stockholm University, shows that the need to seek anonymous support online is great.

   • 1969 September 16, Arbetet‎^[5], page 6:

     Det är Sveriges första on-line-kopplade bankomat — den står alltså i direkt förbindelse med bankens datamaskin som […]

     It is Sweden's first on-line connected ATM — it is hence directly connected to the bank's computer which […]

   • 1964 July 13, Svenska Dagbladet‎^[6], page 2:

     […] online system direkt anknutet till SAS världsomspännande nät för […]

     […] online system directly connected to SAS worldwide network for […]

Unadapted borrowing from English online.

• IPA^(key): /ˈon.ɫajn/, /onˈɫajn/
• Hyphenation: on‧line

online

1. online

   Synonyms: çevrim içi, çevrimiçi

   Antonyms: çevrim dışı, offline

• "online" - in Tureng Dictionary