How to spell browser

Browser is spelled B-R-O-W-S-E-R. Browse plus R: the S of browse stays, even though it sounds like Z.

hear itbrows·er/'braʊzɝr/nounRules and real life

What it means: A program for viewing web pages on the internet.

In a sentence: I used the browser to find a fun game online.

Same family: browsing, web-browser, browser-based, surf, navigate. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “browser” comes from the verb “browse,” which originally meant to eat leaves or look through things casually, like browsing a book. In the 1980s and 1990s, it was adopted in computing to mean a program that lets you casually look through information, especially on the World Wide Web.

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