name
Meaning 1
A video-sharing website.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Anthony just subscribed to someone on YouTube a day ago.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
YouTube
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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/ˈjuːtʃuːb/ yod-coalescence
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/ˈjuːtjuːb/ non-yod-coalescence
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Southern-England: yod-coalescence Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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General-American: /ˈjutub/
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US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈjʉːtʃʉːb/
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Northern-Ireland, Scotland: /ˈjʉtʃʉb/
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Northern-Ireland, Scotland: /-tjʉb/
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Wales: /ˈjuːtɪʊ̯b/
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rhymes with -uːtjuːb
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rhymes with -uːtʃuːb
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homophone: U-tube
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CMU ARPABET: Y UW1 T Y UW2 B Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
Collectively, the users of YouTube; especially the content creator's viewers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Hi, how's it going YouTube! Sorry I wasn't able to upload a video last week!
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Any website that allows users to upload content, particularly YouTube itself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 4
A small video that can be viewed online, particularly one hosted on YouTube.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 5
A YouTube channel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 6
Misspelling of YouTube.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, misspelling
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To upload a video of something to YouTube.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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verb
Meaning 8
To search for and view on YouTube.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 9
To upload or watch videos on YouTube.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *uswé Proto-Indo-European *-(m)is? Proto-Indo-European *uswísder. Proto-Germanic *izwiz Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz Old English ēow Middle English yow English you Latin tuba Latin tubusder. Middle French tubeder. English tube English YouTube A website name (from you + tube (“North American colloquial term for television”)) implying that users (you) may submit their own television (tube) content.
Across languages
Translations
67 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: يُوتِيُوب (yūtiyūb) — a video-sharing website
- Arabic: يُوتْيُوب (yūtyūb) — a video-sharing website
- Armenian: Յություբ (Yutʻyub) — a video-sharing website
- Azerbaijani: yutub — a video-sharing website
- Belarusian: юту́б (jutúb) — a video-sharing website
- Bengali: ইউটিউব (iuṭiub) — a video-sharing website
- Bulgarian: ютю́б (jutjúb) — a video-sharing website
- Burmese: ယူကျု (yu-kyu.) — a video-sharing website
- Chinese Mandarin: YouTube — a video-sharing website
- Chinese Mandarin: 優兔 /优兔 (yōutù) — a video-sharing website
- Chinese Mandarin: 油管 (yóuguǎn) — a video-sharing website
- Dutch: YouTube — a video-sharing website
- Esperanto: Jutubo — a video-sharing website
- Estonian: YouTube — a video-sharing website
- Finnish: YouTube — a video-sharing website
- French: YouTube — a video-sharing website
- Georgian: იუთუბი (iutubi) — a video-sharing website
- German: YouTube — a video-sharing website
- Greek: γιουτιούμπ (gioutioúmp) — a video-sharing website
- Hebrew: יוּטְיוּבּ (yutyub) — a video-sharing website
- Hindi: यूट्यूब (yūṭyūb) — a video-sharing website
- Hungarian: YouTube — a video-sharing website
- Japanese: ユーチューブ (Yūchūbu) — a video-sharing website
- Japanese: ようつべ (Yōtsube) — a video-sharing website
- Kazakh: ютьюб (ütüb) — a video-sharing website
- Kazakh: ютюб (ütüb) — a video-sharing website
- Kazakh: ютуб (ütub) — a video-sharing website
- Khmer: យូ ធូប (yuu thuup) — a video-sharing website
- Khmer: យូធូប (yuuthuup) — a video-sharing website
- Korean: 유튜브 (Yutyubeu) — a video-sharing website
- Lao: ຢູທູບ (yū thūp) — a video-sharing website
- Lithuanian: jutubas — a video-sharing website
- Macedonian: Ју́туб (Jútub) — a video-sharing website
- Macedonian: Ју́тјуб (Jútjub) — a video-sharing website
- Māori: tiriata — a video-sharing website
- Iranian Persian: یوتْیوب (yutyub) — a video-sharing website
- Polish: YouTube — a video-sharing website
- Portuguese: YouTube — a video-sharing website
- Russian: юту́б (jutúb) — a video-sharing website
- Russian: ютью́б (jutʹjúb) — a video-sharing website
- Russian: ютю́б (jutjúb) — a video-sharing website
- Russian: юта́б (jutáb) — a video-sharing website
- Russian: тытруба́ (tytrubá) — a video-sharing website
- Serbo-Croatian: Јутуб — a video-sharing website
- Serbo-Croatian: Јућјуб — a video-sharing website
- Serbo-Croatian: Youtube — a video-sharing website
- Serbo-Croatian: Jùtȗb — a video-sharing website
- Serbo-Croatian: Jùćjȗb — a video-sharing website
- Spanish: YouTube — a video-sharing website
- Swedish: Youtube — a video-sharing website
- Tajik: ютуб (yutub) — a video-sharing website
- Tajik: ютюб (yutyub) — a video-sharing website
- Tamil: வலைஒளி (valai’oḷi) — a video-sharing website
- Thai: ยูทูบ (yuu-túup) — a video-sharing website
- Turkish: YouTube — a video-sharing website
- Turkish: yutup — a video-sharing website
- Ukrainian: юту́б (jutúb) — a video-sharing website
- Urdu: یُوٹْیُوب (yūṭyūb) — a video-sharing website
- Vietnamese: YouTube — a video-sharing website
- Chinese Mandarin: 在線視頻網站 /在线视频网站 (zàixiàn shìpín wǎngzhàn) — any website that allows users to upload content
- Finnish: YouTube — any website that allows users to upload content
- Finnish: tube — any website that allows users to upload content
- French: Youtube — any website that allows users to upload content
- Dutch: youtuben — to upload a video of something to YouTube
- German: youtuben — to upload a video of something to YouTube
- Dutch: youtuben — to search for and view on YouTube
- German: youtuben — to search for and view on YouTube
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