livestream

See also: live stream, live-stream, and Livestream

English

Alternative forms

• live-stream, live stream

Etymology

From live +‎ stream.

Verb

livestream (third-person singular simple present livestreams, present participle livestreaming, simple past and past participle livestreamed)

1. (transitive) To broadcast as a live stream.

   Synonym: stream

   • 2020 April 25, Alaa Elassar, “Post Malone held a Nirvana tribute concert that raised over $500,000 for coronavirus relief”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Post Malone raised more than $500,000 for coronavirus relief by livestreaming a Nirvana tribute concert on YouTube.

   • 2024 June 23, Sui-Lee Wee, “Why Southeast Asia Is Crying Over This Movie”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 23 June 2024:

     The plot revolves around an aimless and unemployed young man, M, whose sole ambition is to livestream his online games.

   • 2024 September 9, Hannah Rabinowitz, “Alleged leaders of White supremacist group charged in effort to encourage terrorism and hate crimes”, in CNN‎^[3]:

     One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.

2. (transitive) To receive and watch as a live stream.

   I'm planning to livestream the football game this weekend.

Translations

broadcast as a live stream

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 直播 (zh) (zhíbō)

• Dutch: livestreamen
• Finnish: striimata (fi), suoralähettää, lähettää verkkoon, suoranauhoittaa
• French: livestream (fr) m
• Hindi: सजीव प्रसारण m (sajīv prasāraṇ)
• Hungarian: élőben közvetít
• Japanese: 生配信する (nama haishin suru)
• Spanish: (Spain) emitir en directo, retransmitir en directo, hacer directo, (Latin America) transmitir en vivo

Noun

livestream (plural livestreams)

1. Alternative form of live stream.
   • 2018 July 12, Nuala Sawyer, “City Cracks Down on Graffiti Artists”, in SF Weekly, volume 37, number 29, San Francisco, Calif., page 10, column 1:

     He was arrested in March after an Instagram-savvy follower recognized the location of his livestream and called the cops, and Ross now faces 29 felony charges of vandalism.

   • 2021 December 10, Kellen Browning, Julie Creswell, “Mad scramble for video game consoles is a cottage industry”, in Hartford Courant, volume CLXXXV, Hartford, Conn., page 11, column 4:

     A few seconds before noon on a Monday, Jake Randall began encouraging people watching his livestream on YouTube to start refreshing Walmart’s website on their computers.

   • 2023 September 4, “Britney & Sam: It’s over!”, in In Touch Weekly, volume 22, number 36, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., page 23:

     In November, she expressed irritation with Sam, 29, in an awkward exchange on his livestream.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English live stream.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑi̯v.striːm/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: live‧stream

Noun

livestream m (plural livestreams, no diminutive)

1. a live stream

Related terms

• livestreamen
• stream

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation) live

Etymology

From English livestream.

Pronunciation 1

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [laːj˧˧ stɹim˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [laːj˧˧ ʂtɹim˧˧] ~ [laːj˧˧ stɹim˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [laːj˧˧ ʂtɹim˧˧] ~ [laːj˧˧ stɹim˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: lai strim

Pronunciation 2

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [laːj˧˧ t͡ɕim˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [laːj˧˧ ʈim˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [laːj˧˧ ʈim˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: lai trim

Pronunciation 2

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [laːj˧˧ t͡ɕim˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [laːj˧˧ t͡ɕim˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [laːj˧˧ cim˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: lai chim

Noun

(classifier phiên) livestream

1. livestream

Verb

livestream

1. to livestream