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English

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 YouTube on Wikipedia
Logo of YouTube

Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *izwiz
Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz
Old English ēow
Middle English yow
English you
Latin tuba
Latin tubusder.
Middle French tubeder.
English tube
English YouTube

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

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    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!

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    Noun

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    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.

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    any website that allows users to upload content

    Verb

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    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.

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    French

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    French Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia fr

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    Borrowed from English YouTube.

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    YouTube m

    1. YouTube

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    German

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from English YouTube.

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

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

    1. YouTube

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    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

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    Hungarian Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia hu

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

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    YouTube

    1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

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    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

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    Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia pl

    Etymology

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    Etymology tree
    Proto-Germanic *izwiz
    Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz
    Old English ēow
    Middle English yow
    English you
    Latin tuba
    Latin tubusder.
    Middle French tubeder.
    English tube
    English YouTubeubor.
    Polish YouTube

      Unadapted borrowing from English YouTube.

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      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.

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      Declension of YouTube
      singular
      nominative YouTube
      genitive YouTube'a
      dative YouTube'owi
      accusative YouTube'a/YouTube
      instrumental YouTube'em
      locative YouTubie
      vocative YouTubie

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      Further reading

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

      Portuguese

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      • (Brazil) IPA(key): /iwˈtu.bi/ [iʊ̯ˈtu.bi], /iwˈtub/ [iʊ̯ˈtub], /juˈtu.bi/, /juˈtub/

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      YouTube m

      1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

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      Spanish

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      Borrowed from English YouTube.

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      • IPA(key): /ʝuˈtub/ [ɟ͡ʝuˈt̪uβ̞], /ʝuˈtuf/ [ɟ͡ʝuˈt̪uf], /ʝuˈtube/ [ɟ͡ʝuˈt̪u.β̞e], /ʝouˈtube/ [ɟ͡ʝou̯ˈt̪u.β̞e], /ˈʝutub/ [ˈɟ͡ʝu.t̪uβ̞] (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay)
      • IPA(key): /ʃuˈtub/ [ʃuˈt̪uβ̞], /ʃuˈtuf/ [ʃuˈt̪uf], /ʃuˈtube/ [ʃuˈt̪u.β̞e], /ʃouˈtube/ [ʃou̯ˈt̪u.β̞e], /ˈʃutub/ [ˈʃu.t̪uβ̞] (Buenos Aires and environs)
      • IPA(key): /ʒuˈtub/ [ʒuˈt̪uβ̞], /ʒuˈtuf/ [ʒuˈt̪uf], /ʒuˈtube/ [ʒuˈt̪u.β̞e], /ʒouˈtube/ [ʒou̯ˈt̪u.β̞e], /ˈʒutub/ [ˈʒu.t̪uβ̞] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

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      YouTube m

      1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

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      Vietnamese

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      Vietnamese Wikipedia has an article on:
      Wikipedia vi

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      Borrowed from English YouTube.

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      YouTube

      1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)
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