noun · verb · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation:/kəˈsɛt/
General-American, Received-Pronunciation:/kæˈsɛt/
Southern-England:Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
India:/ˈkæː.seʈ/
rhymes with -ɛt
CMU ARPABET:K AH0 S EH1 T
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
A small flat case containing magnetic tape on two reels, used to record and play back audio and video material.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: tape
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
Any similar small cartridge, such as for a computer disk or cassette air conditioner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
noun
Meaning 3
A lightproof container for photographic film.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: arts, hobbies, lifestyle, photography
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
4
noun
Meaning 4
A modular DNA sequence encoding one or more genes for a single biochemical function.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
7
verb
Meaning 7
To record onto a cassette
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
8
noun
Meaning 8
a container that holds a magnetic tape used for recording or playing sound or video
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: container
Narrower terms: audiocassette, videocassette
History
Etymology
Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Proto-Italic *kapsos Latin capsa Old Northern French casse Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Latin -ittus Old French -ete Middle French -ette French cassettebor. English cassette Borrowed from French cassette.
Across languages
Translations
101 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Albanian:
kasetë
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Arabic:
كَاسِيت
(kāsīt)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Armenian:
կասետա
(kaseta)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Azerbaijani:
kaset
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Belarusian:
касе́та
(kasjéta)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Belarusian:
касэ́та
(kaséta)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Bulgarian:
касе́та
(kaséta)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Burmese:
ကက်ဆက်
(kakhcak)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Catalan:
casset
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Chinese Mandarin:
卡式
(kǎshì)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Chinese Mandarin:
盒帶 /盒带
(hédài)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Chinese Mandarin:
盒式
(héshì)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Chinese Mandarin:
卡匣
(kǎxiá)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Czech:
kazeta
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Danish:
kassette
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Dutch:
cassette
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Esperanto:
kasedo
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Estonian:
kassett
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Finnish:
kasetti
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
French:
cassette
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
French:
cassette audio
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
French:
audiocassette
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
French:
cassette vidéo
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
French:
vidéocassette
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
French:
K7
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Georgian:
კასეტა
(ḳaseṭa)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
German:
Kassette
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
German:
Audiokassette
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
German:
Tonkassette
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
German:
Videokassette
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Greek:
κασέτα
(kaséta)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Hebrew:
קַלֶּטֶת
(kalétet)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Hebrew:
קָסֶטָה
(kaséta)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Hindi:
कैसेट
(kaiseṭ)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Hungarian:
kazetta
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Icelandic:
kassetta
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Indonesian:
kaset
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Irish:
caiséad
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Italian:
cassetta
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Japanese:
カセット
(kasetto)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Kazakh:
құндақ
(qūndaq)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Kazakh:
кассета
(kasseta)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Khmer:
កាសិត
(kaasət)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Khmer:
កាសែត
(kaasaet)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Korean:
카세트
(kaseteu)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Northern Kurdish:
kaset
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Kyrgyz:
кассета
(kasseta)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Lao:
ກາແຊັດ
(kā sæt)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Latin:
capsella
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Latvian:
kasete
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Lithuanian:
kasetė
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Macedonian:
касе́та
(kaséta)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Malay:
kaset
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Marathi:
कॅसेट
(kĕseṭ)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Mongolian:
кассет
(kasset)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Norman:
cassette
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Norwegian Bokmål:
kassett
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Norwegian Nynorsk:
kassett
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Pashto:
کسېټ
(kaseṭ)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Iranian Persian:
کاسِت
(kâset)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Piedmontese:
cassiëtta
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Polish:
kaseta
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Portuguese:
cassete
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Romanian:
casetă
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Russian:
кассе́та
(kasséta)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Serbo-Croatian:
касѐта
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Serbo-Croatian:
kasèta
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Slovak:
kazeta
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Slovene:
kaseta
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Spanish:
casete
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Swahili:
kaseti
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Swedish:
kassett
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Tajik:
кассета
(kasseta)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Thai:
คาสเซ็ต
(káat-sèt)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Tibetan:
གླུ་གཞས་འཁོར་ཐག
(glu gzhas 'khor thag)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Tibetan:
འཁོར་ཐག
('khor thag)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Turkish:
kaset
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Turkmen:
kasseta
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Ukrainian:
касе́та
(kaséta)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Urdu:
کَیسِٹ
(kaisiṭ)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Uyghur:
كاسېتا
(kasëta)
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Uzbek:
kasseta
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Vietnamese:
hộp băng
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Vietnamese:
băng
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Vietnamese:
băng từ
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Vietnamese:
cát-xét
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Volapük:
kasät
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Volapük:
tonakasät
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Volapük:
magodakasät
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Welsh:
casét
— small flat case containing magnetic tape
Dutch:
cassette
— set of sprockets on a bicycle
Finnish:
rataspakka
— set of sprockets on a bicycle
French:
cassette
— set of sprockets on a bicycle
German:
Zahnkranzpaket
— set of sprockets on a bicycle
Italian:
cassetta pignoni
— set of sprockets on a bicycle
Italian:
pacco pignoni
— set of sprockets on a bicycle
Norwegian Bokmål:
kassett
— set of sprockets on a bicycle
Polish:
kaseta
— set of sprockets on a bicycle
Finnish:
kasetti
— modular segment of DNA encoding genes for a single function
German:
Kassette
— modular segment of DNA encoding genes for a single function
Korean:
카세트
(kaseteu)
— modular segment of DNA encoding genes for a single function
