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video

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈvɪd.i.əʊ//
  • Canada//ˈvɪd.i.oʊ//
  • //ˈʋi.ɖɪ.jo//
  • //ˈʋiɖ.jo//
  • /[ʋiːɖ(ɪ)joˑ]/

Transient visual content or media, processed with technology, especially electronic.

noun

  1. 1

    Transient visual content or media, processed with technology, especially electronic.

    Early TV used film to record video.

    Which cable is for the video feed?

  2. 2

    A recording or medium of visual content, especially audiovisual content for playback; a motion picture, movie, film.

    We edited a video montage of Robbie's first birthday.

    We used to make videos on tape recorders.

    Check out the videos I uploaded online.

  3. 3

    datedTelevision content or media.

  4. 4

    datedvideotape, VHS.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *widéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *widēō Latin videōbor. English audioinflu. English video From the root vide of Latin videō (“to see”) + -o, formed in analogy to audio.

verb

  1. 1

    To record using a video camera, to videotape.

  2. 2

    To record a television program.

  3. 3

    To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.

Forms

plural
videos, videmus, videoes
past tense
videoed
past participle
videoed
present participle
videoing
third person singular
videoes
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).