YouTube
See also: Youtube
English
Logo of YouTube
Etymology
Website name, from you + tube (North American colloquial term for "television"), implying that users ("you") may submit their own television ("tube") content.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈjuːtjuːb/, /ˈjuːtʃuːb/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈjutub/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈjʉːtʃʉːb/
- Homophone: U-tube
Noun
YouTube (plural YouTubes)
- (neologism) Any website that allows users to upload content, particularly YouTube itself.
- 2007, Steven J. Bell, John D. Shank, Academic librarianship by design:
- None of this is to suggest that academic libraries should turn their websites into a YouTube or Facebook in which our user communities would create all the content, […]
- 2008, Bradley L. Jones, Web 2.0 Heroes:
- There is all kinds of stuff that people post there- some of it is entertaining, some is actually useful as a template for studying or for business...it is sort of like a YouTube for documents.
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- (neologism, informal) A small video that can be viewed online, particularly one hosted on YouTube.
- 2007, Andy Ihnatko, iPhone Fully Loaded:
- Then it's a YouTube of some kid trying to play "Radar Love" on a cheap guitar using only his feet, […]
- 2009 March, Valerie McQueen, “Bring me the Horizon”, in Revolver:
- Not too long ago, there was a YouTube of you two brawling. How did the musical collaboration happen?
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Translations
any website that allows users to upload content
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Proper noun
YouTube
- A video-sharing website.
Synonyms
- YT (abbreviation)
Derived terms
- BookTube
- booktuber
- Jewtube
- YouPube
- YouTube bait
- YouTube poop, YTP
- YouTuber
- YouTubian
- YouTubular
Translations
a video-sharing website
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See also
- Adpocalypse
- reply girl
Verb
YouTube (third-person singular simple present YouTubes, present participle YouTubing, simple past and past participle YouTubed)
- (neologism, transitive) To upload a video of something to YouTube.
- 2007 February 5, “Why YouTube gets my vote for political punditry”, in Guardian Unlimited:
- The revolution will not be televised. It will be YouTubed.
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- (neologism, transitive) To search for and view on YouTube.
- 2015 April 21, Bob Jones, “Appetite for quirky fulfilled”, in Wanganui Chronicle:
- Inquiry elicited that he was a pop singer. I YouTubed him, revealing another ghastly microphone-gripping, anguished nasal wailer.
- 2017 Sammy Guevara Impact Wrestling July 20
- If you don't know me, YouTube me, because soon the whole world is going to know me.
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Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:YouTube.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English YouTube.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ju.tyb/, /ju.tjub/, /ju.tub/
Audio (file)
Proper noun
YouTube m
- YouTube
Derived terms
- youtubeur
German
Alternative forms
- Youtube
Etymology
Borrowed from English YouTube.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjuːt(j)uːp/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /ˈjuːt(j)uːb/ (some southern speakers, chiefly Switzerland)
Proper noun
YouTube n (proper noun, strong, genitive YouTubes or YouTube)
- YouTube
Declension
Declension of YouTube [sg-only, neuter, strong]
| singular | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | |
| nominative | ein | das | YouTube |
| genitive | eines | des | YouTubes, YouTube |
| dative | einem | dem | YouTube |
| accusative | ein | das | YouTube |
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈjutuːb], [ˈjucuːb]
- Hyphenation: You‧Tube
- Rhymes: -uːb
Proper noun
YouTube
- YouTube (a video-sharing website)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | YouTube | — |
| accusative | YouTube-ot | — |
| dative | YouTube-nak | — |
| instrumental | YouTube-bal | — |
| causal-final | YouTube-ért | — |
| translative | YouTube-bá | — |
| terminative | YouTube-ig | — |
| essive-formal | YouTube-ként | — |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | YouTube-ban | — |
| superessive | YouTube-on | — |
| adessive | YouTube-nál | — |
| illative | YouTube-ba | — |
| sublative | YouTube-ra | — |
| allative | YouTube-hoz | — |
| elative | YouTube-ból | — |
| delative | YouTube-ról | — |
| ablative | YouTube-tól | — |
| non-attributive possessive - singular | YouTube-é | — |
| non-attributive possessive - plural | YouTube-éi | — |
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English YouTube.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈju.tup/, /ˈjut.jup/
- Rhymes: -utup, -utjup
- Syllabification: You‧Tube
Proper noun
YouTube m inan
- YouTube
Declension
Declension of YouTube
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | YouTube |
| genitive | YouTube'a |
| dative | YouTube'owi |
| accusative | YouTube |
| instrumental | YouTube'em |
| locative | YouTubie |
| vocative | YouTube |
Further reading
- YouTube in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- YouTube in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /juˈtub/, /juˈtu.bi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /juˈtub/, /juˈtu.be/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /juˈtub/ [juˈtuβ], /juˈtu.b(ɨ)/ [juˈtu.β(ɨ)]
Proper noun
YouTube m
- YouTube (a video-sharing website)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English YouTube.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
YouTube m
- YouTube (a video-sharing website)
Derived terms
- YouTuber
- youtubero