YouTube

See also: Youtube

English

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Etymology

A 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)
  • (yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.tʃuːb/
  • (without the yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.tjuːb/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈju.tub/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈjʉː.tʃʉːb/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Audio (US):

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ju.ʈ(j)ub/, /ˈjuʈ(j)ʊb/
• Rhymes: -uːtjuːb, -uːtʃuːb
• Homophone: U-tube

Proper noun

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!

Derived terms

• BookTube
• booktuber
• GunTube
• GunTuber
• Jewtube
• MCYT
• virtual YouTuber
• VTuber
• YouPube
• YouTube bait
• YouTube Poop
• YouTube Pooper
• YouTuber
• YouTubian
• YouTubular
• YTP

Translations

a video-sharing website

Arabic: يُوتِيُوب m (yūtiyūb), يُوتْيُوب m (yūtyūb) Armenian: Յություբ (Yutʻyub) Belarusian: юту́б m (jutúb) Bengali: ইউটিউব (bn) (iuṭiub) Bulgarian: ютю́б m (jutjúb) Burmese: ယူကျု (yu-kyu.) Chinese: Mandarin: YouTube, 優兔 / 优兔 (yōutù) (slang, neologism), 油管 (zh) (yóuguǎn) (slang, neologism) Dutch: YouTube (nl) n Esperanto: Jutubo Estonian: YouTube Finnish: YouTube French: YouTube (fr) m Georgian: იუთუბი (iutubi) German: YouTube n Greek: γιουτιούμπ (el) (gioutioúmp) Hebrew: יוּטְיוּבּ m (yutyub) Hindi: यूट्यूब m (yūṭyūb) Hungarian: YouTube (hu) Japanese: ユーチューブ (Yūchūbu), ようつべ (Yōtsube) (slang) Kazakh: ютьюб (ütüb), ютюб (ütüb), ютуб (ütub) Khmer: យូ ធូប (yuu thuup), យូធូប (yuuthuup) Korean: 유튜브 (ko) (Yutyubeu) Lao: ຢູທູບ (yū thūp) Lithuanian: jutubas m Macedonian: Ју́туб m (Jútub), Ју́тјуб m (Jútjub) Maori: tiriata Persian: Iranian Persian: یوتْیوب (yutyub) Polish: YouTube (pl) m Portuguese: YouTube m Russian: юту́б m (jutúb), ютью́б m (jutʹjúb) , ютю́б (ru) m (jutjúb), юта́б m (jutáb) (colloquial), тытруба́ f (tytrubá) (slang, uncommon) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Јутуб m, Јућјуб m (slang) Roman: Youtube m (formally), Jùtȗb m, Jùćjȗb m (slang) Spanish: YouTube Swedish: Youtube n Tajik: ютуб (yutub), ютюб (yutyub) Tamil: வலைஒளி (valai’oḷi) Thai: ยูทูบ (yuu-túup) Turkish: YouTube, yutup (slang) Ukrainian: юту́б m (jutúb) Urdu: یُوٹْیُوب m (yūṭyūb) Vietnamese: YouTube

Noun

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.

Translations

any website that allows users to upload content

Chinese: Mandarin: 在線視頻網站 / 在线视频网站 (zàixiàn shìpín wǎngzhàn) Finnish: YouTube, tube (fi) (slang) French: Youtube m

Verb

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:

     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:

     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.

Translations

to upload a video of something to YouTube

Dutch: youtuben (nl) German: youtuben (de)

to search for and view on YouTube

Dutch: youtuben (nl) German: youtuben (de)

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

YouTube

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

Borrowed from English YouTube.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

  (file)

Proper noun

YouTube m

1. YouTube

Derived terms

• youtubeur

German

Alternative forms

• Youtube

Etymology

Borrowed from English YouTube.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

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

1. YouTube

Declension

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

Hungarian Wikipedia has an article on:

YouTube

Wikipedia ^hu

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

YouTube

1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

Declension

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

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

YouTube

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English YouTube.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈju.tup/, /ˈju.tjup/
• Rhymes: -utup, -utjup
• Syllabification: You‧Tube

Proper noun

YouTube m inan

1. YouTube (video-sharing website)

Declension

Declension of YouTube

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

Derived terms

verbs

• wyyoutubować pf
• youtubować impf

Related terms

nouns

• youtuber
• youtuberka

Further reading

• YouTube in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

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

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /iwˈtu.bɨ/ [iwˈtu.βɨ]

Proper noun

YouTube m

1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

Derived terms

• youtuber

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English YouTube.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ʝuˈtub/ [ɟ͡ʝuˈt̪uβ̞], /ʝuˈtuf/ [ɟ͡ʝuˈt̪uf]

• IPA^(key): /ʝuˈtub/ [ɟ͡ʝuˈt̪uβ̞], /ʝuˈtuf/ [ɟ͡ʝuˈt̪uf] (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /juˈtub/ [juˈt̪uβ̞], /juˈtuf/ [juˈt̪uf] (Argentina and Uruguay)

• • Rhymes: -ub, -uf

 

• IPA^(key): (spelling pronunciation, humorous) /ʝouˈtube/ [ɟ͡ʝou̯ˈt̪u.β̞e]

• IPA^(key): (spelling pronunciation, humorous) /ʝouˈtube/ [ɟ͡ʝou̯ˈt̪u.β̞e] (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): (spelling pronunciation, humorous) /ʃouˈtube/ [ʃou̯ˈt̪u.β̞e] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): (spelling pronunciation, humorous) /ʒouˈtube/ [ʒou̯ˈt̪u.β̞e] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• • Rhymes: -ube

Proper noun

YouTube m

1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

Derived terms

• YouTuber
• youtubero

Vietnamese

Vietnamese Wikipedia has an article on:

YouTube

Wikipedia ^vi

Alternative forms

• YT (abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from English YouTube.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Hà Nội):

  (file)

Proper noun

YouTube

1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)