YouTube

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English

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
Logo of YouTube

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Proper noun

YouTube

  1. A video-sharing website.

Synonyms

  • YT (abbreviation)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Noun

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!

Translations

Verb

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

  1. (neologism, transitive) To upload a video of something to YouTube.
    • 2007 February 5, “Why YouTube gets my vote for political punditry”, in Guardian Unlimited:
      The revolution will not be televised. It will be YouTubed.
  2. (neologism, transitive) To search for and view on YouTube.
    • 2015 April 21, Bob Jones, “Appetite for quirky fulfilled”, in Wanganui Chronicle:
      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.

Quotations

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fr

Etymology

Borrowed from English YouTube.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

YouTube m

  1. YouTube

Derived terms

German

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English YouTube.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

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

  1. YouTube

Declension

Hungarian

Hungarian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia hu

Pronunciation

Proper noun

YouTube

  1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

Declension

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

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English YouTube.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

YouTube m inan

  1. YouTube (video-sharing website)

Declension

Derived terms

verbs

Related terms

nouns

Further reading

  • YouTube in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /juˈtub/, /juˈtu.bi/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /juˈtub/, /juˈtu.be/

Proper noun

YouTube m

  1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English YouTube.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ʝuˈtub/ , /ʝuˈtuf/
  • IPA(key): (Argentina and Uruguay) /juˈtub/ , /juˈtuf/

Proper noun

YouTube m

  1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

Derived terms