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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   plural of nerd form-of, plural

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A stack of technologies used to develop web applications.

   "I wanted to share an example of how to get NERDS (Node, Express, React, Database using SQL) stack up and running on Heroku."

Synonyms

All synonyms

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Example

More examples

"Tatoeba is just Twitter for language nerds. I eagerly await tempestuous floods of snarky hashtags in every sentence."

Etymology

Acronym of Node.js, Express.js, React, and databases using SQL, or a set of similar names. Attested from the late 2010s.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.