livestream

Also stream
Or live stream

[lahyv-streem]

verb (used with object)

1. Sometimes live-stream to transmit or receive (video of an event, especially with commentary) on the internet while the event is taking place.

   Players were livestreaming walk-throughs of the video game before its official release date.

noun

1. a video of an event, especially with commentary, distributed on the internet while the event is taking place.

   The livestream of the debate will be annotated by fact-checkers.

livestream

/ ˈlaɪvˌstriːm /

verb

1. to broadcast (an event) on the internet as it happens

noun

1. a live broadcast of an event on the internet

Word History and Origins

Origin of livestream¹

First recorded in 2010–15; live ² (in the sense “not taped, happening now”) + stream (in the sense “data flow”)

Example Sentences

More recently, the crowd thinned to around 350 as more collectors started watching the sale over a livestream.

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In Lu’an, a fourth-tier city in Anhui Province, young couples recently picked up a “smart-kitchen” appliance package via a livestream promotion from a national brand—a category seeing double-digit growth in these markets.

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In Lu’an, a fourth-tier city in Anhui Province, young couples recently picked up a “smart-kitchen” appliance package via a livestream promotion from a national brand—a category seeing double-digit growth in these markets.

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The company’s livestream showed the booster firing its engines to slow its descent before its touchdown on the ship.

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Bezos, the Amazon.com founder, could be seen on the livestream in the company’s mission-control center in Florida, excited by the rocket’s performance.

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