YouTube

A website name (from you +‎ tube (“North American colloquial term for television”)) implying that users (you) may submit their own television (tube) content.

• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /ˈjuːtʃuːb/
  • (non-yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /ˈjuːtjuːb/

    • Audio (Southern England, yod-coalescence):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈjutub/, /ˈjutub/

  • Audio (US):

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈjʉːtʃʉːb/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈjʉtʃʉb/, /-tjʉb/
• (Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈjuːtɪʊ̯b/
• Rhymes: -uːtjuːb, -uːtʃuːb
• Homophone: U-tube

YouTube

1. A video-sharing website.

   Alternative form: (abbreviation) YT

   Anthony just subscribed to someone on YouTube a day ago.

2. 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!

YouTube (countable and uncountable, plural YouTubes)

1. (countable) 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.

2. (informal, countable) 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?

3. (countable) A YouTube channel.
   • 2020 June 11, Dan Meyer, “National Theatre at Home to Broadcast A Midsummer Night's Dream, Starring Gwendoline Christie”, in Playbill:

     National Theatre at Home also unveiled titles for the remainder of its season, which continues to release streams every Thursday at 2 PM ET on its YouTube, with productions remaining on demand through noon ET the following Thursday.

YouTube (third-person singular simple present YouTubes, present participle YouTubing, simple past and past participle YouTubed)

1. (transitive) To upload a video of something to YouTube.
   • 2007 February 5, “Why YouTube gets my vote for political punditry”, in Guardian Unlimited‎^[1]:

     The revolution will not be televised. It will be YouTubed.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:YouTube.
2. (transitive) To search for and view on YouTube.
   • 2015 April 21, Bob Jones, “Appetite for quirky fulfilled”, in Wanganui Chronicle‎^[2]:

     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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:YouTube.
3. (intransitive) To upload or watch videos on YouTube.

Borrowed from English YouTube.

• IPA^(key): /ju.tyb/, /ju.tjub/, /ju.tub/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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YouTube m

1. YouTube

• youtubeur

• Youtube

Borrowed from English YouTube.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːt(j)uːp/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːt(j)uːb/ (some southern speakers, chiefly Switzerland)

YouTube n (proper noun, strong, genitive YouTubes or YouTube)

1. YouTube

• IPA^(key): [ˈjutuːb], [ˈjucuːb]
• Hyphenation: You‧Tube
• Rhymes: -uːb

YouTube

1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

Unadapted borrowing from English YouTube.

• IPA^(key): /ˈju.tjup/, /ˈju.tup/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -utjup, -utup
• Syllabification: You‧Tube

YouTube m animal or m inan

1. YouTube (video-sharing website)

   Na filmiku na YouTubie wikławiec brykał po plecach właściciela. ― In a YouTube video, a kinkajou was scampering around on its owner's back.

• “YouTube”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

YouTube m

1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

Borrowed from English YouTube.

• Rhymes: -ub, -uf, -ube, -utub

YouTube m

1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

• YT (abbreviation)

Borrowed from English YouTube.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zu˧˧ tup̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jʊw˧˧ tup̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [jʊw˧˧ tʊp̚˦˥]
• Phonetic spelling: du túp

• Audio (Hà Nội):

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YouTube

1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)