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/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: U-tube
Proper noun
YouTube
- A video-sharing website.
Synonyms
- YT (abbreviation)
Derived terms
Translations
a video-sharing website
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See also
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.
- (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?
- (uncountable) Collectively, the users of YouTube; especially the content creator's viewers.
- Hi, how's it going YouTube! Sorry I wasn't able to upload a video last week!
Translations
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.
- (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 July 20, Sammy Guevara, Impact Wrestling:
- If you don't know me, YouTube me, because soon the whole world is going to know me.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:YouTube.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ju.tyb/, /ju.tjub/, /ju.tub/
Audio (file) Audio (file) Audio (Switzerland) (file)
Derived terms
German
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjuːt(j)uːp/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /ˈjuːt(j)uːb/ (some southern speakers, chiefly Switzerland)
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈjutuːb], [ˈjucuːb]
- Hyphenation: You‧Tube
- Rhymes: -uːb
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈju.tup/, /ˈjut.jup/
- Rhymes: -utup, -utjup
- Syllabification: You‧Tube
Declension
Derived terms
verbs
- wyyoutubować pf
- youtubować impf
Further reading
- YouTube in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ʝuˈtub/ [ɟ͡ʝuˈt̪uβ̞], /ʝuˈtuf/ [ɟ͡ʝuˈt̪uf]
- IPA(key): (Argentina and Uruguay) /juˈtub/ [juˈt̪uβ̞], /juˈtuf/ [juˈt̪uf]
- Rhymes: -ub, -uf
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