English Explanatory Dictionary

zeerust

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Datedness of something originally intended to seem futuristic.
name
  1. A town in the province of North West, South Africa.
  2. A locality in the City of Greater Shepparton, north eastern Victoria, Australia.

Word forms

zeerust

Etymology

Coined by British science fiction writer and humorist Douglas Adams and British television producer and writer John Lloyd in The Meaning of Liff (1983), from Zeerust, the name of a town in South Africa. By folk etymology, connected semantics to rust.

Related words

retrofuturism

Derived words

zeerust
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