video
Americannoun
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videos
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a program, movie, or other visual media product featuring moving images, with or without audio, that is recorded and saved digitally or on videocassette: She used her phone to record a video of her baby's first steps.
Let's stay at home and watch a video.
She used her phone to record a video of her baby's first steps.
I spent all morning watching videos of cats online.
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Television.
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the elements of television, as in a program or script, pertaining to the transmission or reception of the image (distinguished from audio).
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the video part of a television broadcast.
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Informal. videotape.
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Informal. television.
She is a star of stage and video.
adjective
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of or relating to the electronic apparatus for producing the television picture.
video amplifier.
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of or relating to television, especially the visual elements.
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of or relating to videocassettes, VCRs, music videos, etc..
a video shop.
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pertaining to or employed in the transmission or reception of television pictures.
verb (used with object)
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videos,
present (3rd person singular)
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videoed,
past, past participle
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videoing
present participle
adjective
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relating to or employed in the transmission or reception of a televised image
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of, concerned with, or operating at video frequencies
noun
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the visual elements of a television broadcast
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a film recorded on a video cassette
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short for video cassette video cassette recorder
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an informal name for television
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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videosimple
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videossimple
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have videoedperfect
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has videoedperfect
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am videoingprogressive
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are videoingprogressive
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is videoingprogressive
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have been videoingperfect progressive
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has been videoingperfect progressive
Past
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videoedsimple
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had videoedperfect
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was videoingprogressive
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were videoingprogressive
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had been videoingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of video
First recorded in 1930–35; from Latin vidē(re) “to see” + -o, as in audio
Explanation
Video is a noun that refers to the recording or broadcasting of a moving image, like the funny video your friend took of you the first time you tried to skateboard. Video means a recorded image or movie, like a home video of your uncle's wedding or the video equipment a television station uses to make news stories. You can also call a movie you watch on your television or computer a video. A short film made to accompany a song? That's a music video. Video was first used in 1935 as a counterpart to audio which describes sound or music. It comes from the Latin word video: I see.
Vocabulary lists containing video
Media Literacy - Middle School
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Example Sentences
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Snap, which unveiled more powerful $2,195 augmented reality glasses this year, sold glasses that record video in bright yellow vending machines in 2016, but the product flopped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
But the real fever pitch reached last week, after Grande released the music video for her latest single “Petal.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
They are the same ones Rogers focuses on in that video, and they’re repeated, ad nauseam, every time Piker appears on television.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
The theme also dominated his six-minute farewell video timed to release after death.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
“Even more privilege than you’ve ever imagined. Technology beyond your wildest dreams. I mean, we have time travel—you can be sure that the video games will be truly awesome!”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
On Instagram, some videos depict people getting approached in malls and grocery stores and on college campuses and sidewalks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Piker initially came to fame a few years prior while making YouTube videos for his uncle’s media company The Young Turks.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
Also on its front page, the PM has been told to "tone down his 'blokeish' videos", including one that rated pub snacks.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Just two percent of the 1,000 teenagers polled said they did not currently scroll on social media or watch short-form videos on school nights.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Josie and Max—real Josie and Max—both started backing away from the videos.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
In a videoed stunt, Findlay went up to the deputy first minister, who happened to be using a Conservative-branded pen, and offered her a membership form.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
In the Ione, Wash., farmers market, the local Sentinel editor called us over and videoed a description of our bike load.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025
Then security cameras videoed people getting past them by shimmying up the fence poles.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
Whether or not he decides to appear at the trial, scheduled to begin later this year, the A.G. can use his videoed deposition testimony to brutalize him the same way Carroll’s lawyers did.
From Slate ● May 11, 2023
The incident was videoed by someone in a flat overlooking the street.
From Reuters ● Aug. 23, 2022
Passengers tend to spend the first few minutes of the ride "marvelling, videoing the steering wheel moving on its own, taking selfies", Fischer said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
I didn’t take my phone up to do the class photo, but I know some other people were, they were videoing, and I’m like, “Oh darn, I wish that I took the phone up.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
The trade union's annual conference heard that more patients were videoing their procedures on mobile phones, often without asking permission.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025
The teen was part of a large group of students who were visiting the zoo in South Australia when he dropped his phone into the panda’s bamboo forest while videoing, according to 7News Australia.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
“How about the videoing? My phone has a pretty incredible slo-mo video camera.”
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
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