video chat

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English

Alternative forms

Noun

video chat (countable and uncountable, plural video chats)

  1. (Internet) An audiovisual conversation with one or more other people by means of telecommunication technology.

Translations

Verb

video chat (third-person singular simple present video chats, present participle video chatting, simple past and past participle video chatted)

  1. (intransitive, Internet) To participate in a video chat.
  2. (transitive, Internet) To communicate with (someone) via video chat.
    • 2014 July 25, Suzanne Goldenberg, “Apple eyes solar to power the cloud and iPhone 6 sapphire manufacturing”, in The Guardian:
      With Apple’s solar farm, customers could now be confident that downloading an app or video-chatting a friend would not increase carbon pollution, Jackson said.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English video chat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌbideo ˈt͡ʃat/
  • Syllabification: vi‧de‧o chat

Noun

video chat m (plural video chats)

  1. video chat