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podcast

noun · verb · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɒdˌkɑːst/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /-ˌkæst/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ˈpɑdˌkæst/
  • General-American: /ˈpɔd-/
  • [ˈphäd̥̚ˌkhɛə̯s] African-American Vernacular
  • Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈpɒdˌkɐːst/
  • Australian, New-Zealand: /-ˌkæ(ː)st/
  • Singapore: [ˈphɔt̚ˌkhäs]
  • South-Asia: [ˈpɔɖˌkäːʂʈ]
  • rhymes with -ɒdkɑːst
  • rhymes with -ɒdkæst
  • CMU ARPABET: P AO1 D K AE2 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: blogcast

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

An individual episode of such a program.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

verb

Meaning 3

To deliver (information) in the form of a program, especially an audio program, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

To deliver a program, especially an audio program, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English internetwork English Internet English i- English pod English iPod Proto-Indo-European *bher-der.? Proto-Germanic *braidaz Proto-West Germanic *braid Old English brād Middle English brod English broad Proto-Germanic *kas- Proto-Germanic *kastōną Old Norse kastabor. Middle English casten English cast English broadcast blend English podcast Blend of iPod (“portable music player made by Apple”) + broadcast, probably coined by the British technologist and broadcaster Ben Hammersley (born 1976) who proposed the word podcasting in 2004.

Across languages

Translations

116 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: potgooi — type of audio program
  • Afrikaans: podsending — type of audio program
  • Arabic: بُودْكَاسْت m پُودْكَاسْت (būdkāst) — type of audio program
  • Arabic: بَثّ صَوْتِيّ (baṯṯ ṣawtiyy) — type of audio program
  • Arabic: تَدْوِين صَوْتِيّ (tadwīn ṣawtiyy) — type of audio program
  • Armenian: փոդքասթ (pʻodkʻastʻ) — type of audio program
  • Azerbaijani: podkast — type of audio program
  • Belarusian: падка́ст (padkást) — type of audio program
  • Bengali: পডকাস্ট (poḍokasṭ) — type of audio program
  • Bulgarian: по́дкаст (pódkast) — type of audio program
  • Burmese: ပေါ့တ်ကာစ် (paut.kac) — type of audio program
  • Catalan: pòdcast — type of audio program
  • Chinese Mandarin: 播客 (bōkè) — type of audio program
  • Czech: podcast — type of audio program
  • Danish: podcast — type of audio program
  • Dutch: podcast — type of audio program
  • Esperanto: podkasto — type of audio program
  • Estonian: taskuhääling — type of audio program
  • Faroese: poddvarp — type of audio program
  • Faroese: tøkuvarp — type of audio program
  • Finnish: podcast — type of audio program
  • Finnish: ääniohjelma — type of audio program
  • Finnish: puheohjelma — type of audio program
  • French: podcast — type of audio program
  • French: balado — type of audio program
  • Georgian: პოდკასტი (ṗodḳasṭi) — type of audio program
  • German: Podcast — type of audio program
  • German: Audio-Internetsendung — type of audio program
  • Greek: πόντκαστ (póntkast) — type of audio program
  • Hawaiian: hoʻolele hualono — type of audio program
  • Hebrew: פּוֹדְקַאסְט (pódkast) — type of audio program
  • Hebrew: הֶסְכֵּת (heskét) — type of audio program
  • Hebrew: תַּסְכִּית (taskít) — type of audio program
  • Hindi: पॉडकास्ट (pŏḍkāsṭ) — type of audio program
  • Hindi: कोशसत्र (kośsatra) — type of audio program
  • Hungarian: podcast — type of audio program
  • Icelandic: hlaðvarp — type of audio program
  • Icelandic: netvarp — type of audio program
  • Ido: podkasto — type of audio program
  • Indonesian: siniar — type of audio program
  • Irish: podchraol — type of audio program
  • Italian: podcast — type of audio program
  • Japanese: ポッドキャスト (poddokyasuto) — type of audio program
  • Kazakh: подкаст (podkast) — type of audio program
  • Korean: 팟캐스트 (patkaeseuteu) — type of audio program
  • Northern Kurdish: podcast — type of audio program
  • Northern Kurdish: podkast — type of audio program
  • Kyrgyz: подкаст (podkast) — type of audio program
  • Latin: acroāma — type of audio program
  • Latvian: podkāsts — type of audio program
  • Latvian: raidieraksts — type of audio program
  • Lithuanian: podkastas — type of audio program
  • Lithuanian: tinklalaidė — type of audio program
  • Macedonian: по́ткаст (pótkast) — type of audio program
  • Macedonian: подкаст (podkast) — type of audio program
  • Malay: audio siar — type of audio program
  • Malay: video siar — type of audio program
  • Malay: siniar — type of audio program
  • Māori: pāhorangi — type of audio program
  • Mongolian: подкаст (podkast) — type of audio program
  • Norwegian Bokmål: podcast — type of audio program
  • Norwegian Bokmål: podkast — type of audio program
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: podkast — type of audio program
  • Iranian Persian: پادْکَسْت (pâdkast) — type of audio program
  • Iranian Persian: پادْپَخْش (pâdpaxš) — type of audio program
  • Polish: podcast — type of audio program
  • Polish: słuchowisko — type of audio program
  • Portuguese: podcast — type of audio program
  • Romanian: podcast — type of audio program
  • Russian: подка́ст (podkást) — type of audio program
  • Scottish Gaelic: pod-chraoladh — type of audio program
  • Serbo-Croatian: подкаст — type of audio program
  • Serbo-Croatian: podkast — type of audio program
  • Serbo-Croatian: podcast — type of audio program
  • Slovak: podcast — type of audio program
  • Slovene: podkast — type of audio program
  • Spanish: podcast — type of audio program
  • Spanish: pódcast — type of audio program
  • Swahili: podikasti — type of audio program
  • Swedish: podcast — type of audio program
  • Swedish: podd — type of audio program
  • Swedish: poddsändning — type of audio program
  • Tajik: подкаст (podkast) — type of audio program
  • Thai: พอดแคสต์ (pɔ̀ɔt-kɛ́ɛs) — type of audio program
  • Thai: พอดคาสต์ (pɔ̀ɔt-káas) — type of audio program
  • Turkish: podcast — type of audio program
  • Ukrainian: подка́ст (podkást) — type of audio program
  • Urdu: پوڈْکاسْٹ (poḍkāsṭ) — type of audio program
  • Urdu: پوڈ نَشَر (poḍ naśar) — type of audio program
  • Uyghur: پودكەست (podkest) — type of audio program
  • Uzbek: podkast — type of audio program
  • Welsh: podlediad — type of audio program
  • Yiddish: פּאָדקאַסט (podkast) — type of audio program
  • Catalan: pòdcast — individual episode of such a program
  • Finnish: podcast-jakso — individual episode of such a program
  • Finnish: ääniohjelman jakso — individual episode of such a program
  • Finnish: puheohjelman jakso — individual episode of such a program
  • German: Podcast-Episode — individual episode of such a program
  • Polish: odcinek podcastu — individual episode of such a program
  • Swedish: podcast — individual episode of such a program
  • Swedish: podd — individual episode of such a program
  • Swedish: podcastepisod — individual episode of such a program
  • Finnish: lähettää podcastina — to deliver (information) in the form of a program over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices
  • Finnish: podcastata — to deliver (information) in the form of a program over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices
  • French: podcaster — to deliver (information) in the form of a program over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices
  • French: baladodiffuser — to deliver (information) in the form of a program over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices
  • German: podcasten — to deliver (information) in the form of a program over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices
  • Māori: pāhorangi — to deliver (information) in the form of a program over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices
  • Māori: īpāho — to deliver (information) in the form of a program over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices
  • Swedish: podcasta — to deliver (information) in the form of a program over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices
  • Swedish: podda — to deliver (information) in the form of a program over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices
  • Welsh: podledu — to deliver (information) in the form of a program over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices
  • Finnish: lähettää podcastia — to deliver a program over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices
  • Finnish: podcastata — to deliver a program over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices
  • Swedish: podcasta — to deliver a program over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices
  • Swedish: podda — to deliver a program over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices
Real reading context

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