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
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Pacheco, who is running for a seat on the Fresno County Board of Supervisors, posted video of the Oct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
He said the video "does not represent the views of the Government".
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
The company, which has five locations in Greater Tokyo and claims over one million visitors a year, scrapped its video games and token machines last year to refocus on claw machines.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
There are several reports each day, sometimes with video evidence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
“Well, your dad showed me a video of your last recital. And he’s right; you’re really talented,” she says.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Mr. Lee takes us viscerally back to that strike through flashbacks and news videos, and before the police invade we sense its atmosphere of hopeful possibility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Over the years, he published more than 1,500 videos and amassed more than 1.3 million Instagram followers.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Shortly after the group officially formed in June 2024, Dangerfield’s then-girlfriend — now wife and band “momager” Lexi Dangerfield — opened Instagram and TikTok accounts filming and posting their homey videos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
The videos feature near-identical branding to real news outlets in France, including Le Monde, Euronews and France 24.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
I wish I had a wide-angle lens on my phone as I try to frame the mosque with light glinting off the minarets, and take a few videos instead.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
Teens have also been videoed riding through shopping malls and taking over whole lanes of traffic, while councils have been inundated with complaints from pedestrians and motorists.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 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
“She texted me and said, ‘Do you mind if I’m videoing in your kitchen?’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
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
"I didn't know that they’d pulled their cameras. I didn't know that they weren't videoing it," Mr Cornell told BBC News.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2024
“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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