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English

Etymology

From soft +? -ware, by contrast with hardware (“the computer itself”). Coined by Paul Niquette in 1953; first used in print by Richard Carhart in 1953.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?ft?w??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?ft?w??/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /?s?ft?w??/
• Homophone: softwear
• Hyphenation: soft?ware

Noun

software (uncountable)

1. (computing) Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM).
   • 1958, John W. Tukey, "The Teaching of Concrete Mathematics" in The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 65, no. 1 (Jan. 1958), pp 1-9:

     The "software" comprising the carefully planned interpretive routines, compilers, and other aspects of automative programming are at least as important to the modern electronic calculator as its "hardware" of tubes, transistors, wires, tapes and the like.

   Hyponyms: application software, data-oriented software, kitchen table software, on-premises software, malware, schlockware, shareware, shovelware, spyware, system software

2. (military) The human beings involved in warfare, as opposed to hardware such as weapons and vehicles.
   • 1991, New York Magazine (volume 24, number 5, page 33)

     […] preview of horrific images to come, as the hardware stage of the war yields to the software — or human — stage.

Usage notes

Software is a mass noun (some software, a piece of software). By non-native speakers it is sometimes erroneously treated as a countable noun (a software, some softwares).

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:software
• embedded software

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Amharic: ????? (soft?wer)

Translations

See also

References

Further reading

• software on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• forwaste, softwear

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English software.

Noun

software m

1. (computing) software

   Synonyms: programové vybavení, (rare) programové prost?edky

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• hardware

Further reading

• software on the Czech Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^cs

Dutch

Etymology

From English software.

Pronunciation

Noun

software m (uncountable)

1. software (encoded computer instructions)

   Synonym: programmatuur

Derived terms

• gijzelsoftware

Related terms

• hardware

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English software.

Noun

software m (invariable)

1. (computing) software (encoded computer instructions)

Related terms

• hardware

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English software.

Noun

software m (uncountable)

1. (Jersey, computing) software (encoded computer instructions)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English software.

Noun

software m (plural softwares)

1. (computing) software (encoded computer instructions)

Related terms

• hardware

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English software.

Noun

software n (plural (rare) software-uri)

1. (computing) software (encoded computer instructions)

Declension

Synonyms

• soft

Related terms

• hardware

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English software.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?softwe?/, [?sof.t?we?]

• IPA^(key): /?sofwe?/, [?so.fwe?]

Noun

software m (plural softwares)

1. (computing) software (encoded computer instructions)

   Synonym: programa

Derived terms

See also

• hardware

English

Etymology

type +? ahead

Noun

typeahead (uncountable)

1. (computing) A feature of computer software (and some typewriters) that enables the user to continue typing regardless of program or computer operation, the keystrokes being queued as necessary when the system is busy.