Other forms: users
A user is somebody who uses a thing or a service. A registered user, user experience, end user.
Software design has spent years arguing about the word, since calling people users describes them only by their relation to the product — some firms now say people or customers instead. In drug contexts user is being replaced by person who uses drugs.
1nounuserSomebody who uses a thing or a service.
“The new update has annoyed a lot of users, who liked the old design.”
user is a person.
Use plus the -er ending that names a doer. Use comes through Old French from Latin uti, to make use of, which also gave utility and utensil.
Middle English
usere
English, today
user
From Middle English usere, equivalent to use + -er. Cognate with Scots usar, uiser (“user”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA