YouTube

American

[yoo-toob, -tyoob] / ˈyuˌtub, -ˌtyub /

Trademark.

a brand name for a website on which users can post, view, or share videos.

verb (used with or without object)

YouTubed, YouTubing

to post, view, or share (a video) on the YouTube website.

YouTube British

/ ˈjuːˌtjuːb /

noun

a website on which subscribers can post video files

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

(tr) to post (a video file) on the YouTube website

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Example Sentences

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And despite dance changing over the years, from television to YouTube to platforms like TikTok, "the DNA is the same", says Keflezgy.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

Mr. Parsons, who in his teens made a YouTube series along the same lines as the movie, exhibits a smooth facility for taking viewers into the backrooms, a David Lynch-Stanley Kubrick dreamland of the subconscious.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

For example, Kalshi caught a video editor for the MrBeast YouTube channel placing prediction-market bets on video length.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

Rival platforms like ReelShort, DramaBox as well YouTube already have expansive micro-drama collections.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

The bathroom at school stops being a bathroom when I start watching YouTube videos there during lunch.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon

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