Instagram

American  

[in-stuh-gram] / ˈɪn stəˌgræm /

Trademark.

1. the brand name for a photo- and video-sharing application and social media platform launched in 2010.

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verb (used with object)

Instagrammed, Instagramming

1. to post (a photo or video) on the Instagram app.

   I’m Instagramming a video of the whole family enjoying the Mickey Mouse birthday cake.

   This garden is one of the sights most frequently Instagrammed by visitors to our city.

noun

1. a photo or video posted on the Instagram app.

   Oh, not another Instagram of her and her new puppy!

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• Instagrammable
  adjective
• Instagrammer
  noun
• Instagrammed
  adjective

Example Sentences

Problem reports for Instagram and WhatsApp remained elevated until around 12:30 p.m. before falling.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

She said, “You don’t know what Instagram is?”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

Downdetector, a outage tracking site, showed a surge in problem reports for Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp beginning just before 9:30 a.m.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and chief executive of Meta, the company that owns Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, has a similar holding of different classes of shares in his firm.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

They might not hear about my Instagram fame, not immediately, because even when information does get in from the outside, it takes time; but they’ll find out.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed