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See also: Youtube

English

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 YouTube on Wikipedia
Logo of YouTube

Etymology

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Website name, from a compound of you +‎ tube (North American colloquial term for television), implying that users (you) may submit their own television (tube) content.

Pronunciation

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YouTube

  1. A video-sharing website.
    Alternative form: (abbreviation) YT

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Noun

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YouTube (plural YouTubes)

  1. (neologism) Any website that allows users to upload content, particularly YouTube itself.
    • 2007, Steven J. Bell, John D. Shank, Academic librarianship by design:
      None of this is to suggest that academic libraries should turn their websites into a YouTube or Facebook in which our user communities would create all the content, []
    • 2008, Bradley L. Jones, Web 2.0 Heroes:
      There is all kinds of stuff that people post there- some of it is entertaining, some is actually useful as a template for studying or for business...it is sort of like a YouTube for documents.
  2. (neologism, informal) A small video that can be viewed online, particularly one hosted on YouTube.
    • 2007, Andy Ihnatko, iPhone Fully Loaded:
      Then it's a YouTube of some kid trying to play "Radar Love" on a cheap guitar using only his feet, []
    • 2009 March, Valerie McQueen, “Bring me the Horizon”, in Revolver:
      Not too long ago, there was a YouTube of you two brawling. How did the musical collaboration happen?
  3. (uncountable) Collectively, the users of YouTube; especially the content creator's viewers.
    Hi, how's it going YouTube! Sorry I wasn't able to upload a video last week!

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Verb

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YouTube (third-person singular simple present YouTubes, present participle YouTubing, simple past and past participle YouTubed)

  1. (transitive) To upload a video of something to YouTube.
    • 2007 February 5, “Why YouTube gets my vote for political punditry”, in Guardian Unlimited[1]:
      The revolution will not be televised. It will be YouTubed.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:YouTube.
  2. (transitive) To search for and view on YouTube.
    • 2015 April 21, Bob Jones, “Appetite for quirky fulfilled”, in Wanganui Chronicle[2]:
      Inquiry elicited that he was a pop singer. I YouTubed him, revealing another ghastly microphone-gripping, anguished nasal wailer.
    • 2017 July 20, Sammy Guevara, Impact Wrestling:
      If you don't know me, YouTube me, because soon the whole world is going to know me.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:YouTube.
  3. (intransitive) To upload or watch videos on YouTube.
    • 2023 March 24, Adam Leventhal, “Ben Foster’s move to Wrexham: How a business and football deal was done”, in The Athletic[3]:
      He had discussed joining Atlanta United in MLS and following his retirement, there was an outside chance that Hugo Lloris’ current injury at Tottenham Hotspur would create an opening there. Other offers came and went, but it was YouTubing and podcasting that filled [Ben] Foster’s time, not football, albeit with the door to a comeback left slightly ajar.

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French

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French Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fr

Etymology

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Borrowed from English YouTube.

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Proper noun

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YouTube m

  1. YouTube

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German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English YouTube.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈjuːt(j)uːp/ (standard)
  • IPA(key): /ˈjuːt(j)uːb/ (some southern speakers, chiefly Switzerland)

Proper noun

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YouTube n (proper noun, strong, genitive YouTubes or YouTube)

  1. YouTube

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Hungarian

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Hungarian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia hu

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈjutuːb], [ˈjucuːb]
  • Hyphenation: You‧Tube
  • Rhymes: -uːb

Proper noun

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YouTube

  1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative YouTube
accusative YouTube-ot
dative YouTube-nak
instrumental YouTube-bal
causal-final YouTube-ért
translative YouTube-bá
terminative YouTube-ig
essive-formal YouTube-ként
essive-modal
inessive YouTube-ban
superessive YouTube-on
adessive YouTube-nál
illative YouTube-ba
sublative YouTube-ra
allative YouTube-hoz
elative YouTube-ból
delative YouTube-ról
ablative YouTube-tól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
YouTube-é
non-attributive
possessive - plural
YouTube-éi

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English YouTube.

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YouTube m inan

  1. YouTube (video-sharing website)

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Further reading

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  • YouTube in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /iwˈtu.bi/ [iʊ̯ˈtu.bi], /iwˈtub/ [iʊ̯ˈtub], /juˈtu.bi/, /juˈtub/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /iwˈtub/ [iʊ̯ˈtub], /iwˈtu.bi/ [iʊ̯ˈtu.bi], /juˈtub/, /juˈtu.bi/

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YouTube m

  1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English YouTube.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ʝuˈtub/ [ɟ͡ʝuˈt̪uβ̞], /ʝuˈtuf/ [ɟ͡ʝuˈt̪uf]
  • IPA(key): (Argentina and Uruguay) /juˈtub/ [juˈt̪uβ̞], /juˈtuf/ [juˈt̪uf]

Proper noun

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YouTube m

  1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

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