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

• Instagrammer
  noun
• Instagrammable
  adjective
• Instagrammed
  adjective

Example Sentences

The bike ride is a permitted event by the LAPD, according to the organization’s Instagram account.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2026

Esme posted the videos onto her Instagram and TikTok accounts and within an hour, they had been viewed thousands of times.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2026

Barstool started in the Myspace era and has since watched Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitch vie for supremacy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 27, 2026

“When the profile gets so high, it creates a revenue stream that is attractive to advertisers. They can monetize his Instagram, YouTube,” Steinberg said of Vozinha.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 26, 2026

She looked over Immie’s writing style in emails and on Instagram: the way she signed off, the way she wrote paragraphs, the expressions she used.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart