blog

[ blawg, blog ]

noun

1. a website containing a writer's or group of writers' own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often having images and links to other websites.
2. a single entry or post on such a website:

   She regularly contributes a blog to the magazine's website.

verb (used without object)

, blogged, blog·ging.

1. to maintain or add new entries to a blog.

verb (used with object)

, blogged, blog·ging.

1. to express or write about on a blog:

   She’s been blogging her illness for almost a year.

blog

/ blɒɡ /

noun

1. informal.
   an online journal Full nameweblog

Derived Forms

• ˈblogging, noun
• ˈblogger, noun

Other Words From

• blog·ger noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of blog¹

First recorded in 1995–2000; shortening of weblog

Example Sentences

Boozy hot chocolate recaptures the magic of a childhood snow day with a grown-up twistWhile some written blog posts mention these details, many of the social videos I’ve seen do not, giving those prone to dismiss the dish altogether reason to do so.

From Washington Post

If you sell pool accessories, you could create a blog titled “Five Tips for Having a Lockdown-Friendly Fourth of July Party This Weekend.”

From Search Engine Watch

These pages and content formats, which include live blogs, live update or briefing pages, and live chats, drive more content consumption, deliver stronger subscriber conversion, and tend to play an important role in subscriber retention.

From Digiday

“News Showcase … provides a licensing program that pays publishers to curate content for story panels across Google services and gives readers more insights into the stories that matter,” Kate Beddoe says in the announcement blog.

From Search Engine Land

By utilizing various SEO techniques like titles, keywords, internal and external links, the blog post can attain high visibility, thus helping your brand to get in front of hundreds of people.

From Search Engine Watch

As uncovered by the climate blog desmogblog, the Ethical Oil meme dates to a 2010 book by Ezra Levant.

From The Daily Beast

“I´m now writing to you from goat heaven,” he lamented on the blog he maintains.

From The Daily Beast

One fashion blog named her recently as “the most beautiful girl in the world,” full stop.

From The Daily Beast

Her followers love her honesty and the popularity of the blog grows.

From The Daily Beast

I started a blog called Boo Cancer, You Suck as a safe place for me to process what I was going through.

From The Daily Beast

I pointed him to my blog-post on the radio vans and he came back a minute later all freaked out.

From Project Gutenberg

It had hopped from blog to blog, turning into a full-blown movement without my noticing.

From Project Gutenberg

Someone started a new blog called AbusesOfAuthority that collected hundreds more.

From Project Gutenberg

I jumped onto the livejournals and began to crawl from blog to blog.

From Project Gutenberg

That was the first line of my first blog post on Open Revolt, my Xnet site.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• online journal
• site