blog

[ blawg, blog ]

/ blɔg, blɒg /

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noun

a website containing a writer's or group of writers' own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often having images and links to other websites.

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.

to maintain or add new entries to a blog.

verb (used with object), blogged, blog·ging.

to express or write about on a blog: She’s been blogging her illness for almost a year.

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Origin of blog

First recorded in 1995–2000; shortening of weblog

OTHER WORDS FROM blog

blog·ger, noun

Words nearby blog

block vote, blocky, Bloc Québécois, bloc-vote, Bloemfontein, blog, bloggerati, blogosphere, blogroll, blogstream, Blois

How to use blog in a sentence

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.
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If you sell pool accessories, you could create a blog titled “Five Tips for Having a Lockdown-Friendly Fourth of July Party This Weekend.”
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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.
‘A conversion monster’: The live post makes a comeback among news publishers|Max Willens|February 9, 2021|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.
Australia gets News Showcase and how Google handles duplicate content for paid and organic: Monday’s daily brief|Carolyn Lyden|February 8, 2021|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.
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As uncovered by the climate blog desmogblog, the Ethical Oil meme dates to a 2010 book by Ezra Levant.
How Canadian Oilmen Pinkwash the Keystone Pipeline|Jay Michaelson|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“I´m now writing to you from goat heaven,” he lamented on the blog he maintains.
Sweden’s Burning Christmas Goat|Nina Strochlic|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
One fashion blog named her recently as “the most beautiful girl in the world,” full stop.
Is 9-Year-Old Russian Model Kristina Pimenova Too Sexualized?|Anna Nemtsova|December 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Her followers love her honesty and the popularity of the blog grows.
Meet Zoella—The Newbie Author Whose Book Sales Topped J.K. Rowling|Lucy Scholes|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I started a blog called Boo Cancer, You Suck as a safe place for me to process what I was going through.
Blogger Shares and Shames Cancer in ‘Lily’|Amy Grantham|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I pointed him to my blog-post on the radio vans and he came back a minute later all freaked out.
Little Brother|Cory Doctorow
It had hopped from blog to blog, turning into a full-blown movement without my noticing.
Little Brother|Cory Doctorow
Someone started a new blog called AbusesOfAuthority that collected hundreds more.
Little Brother|Cory Doctorow
I jumped onto the livejournals and began to crawl from blog to blog.
Little Brother|Cory Doctorow
That was the first line of my first blog post on Open Revolt, my Xnet site.
Little Brother|Cory Doctorow

British Dictionary definitions for blog

blog

/ (blɒɡ) /

noun

informal an online journalFull name: weblog

Derived forms of blog

blogger, nounblogging, noun

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