KTV
KTV noun: karaoke television, a form of interactive musical entertainment.
Noun
KTV (countable and uncountable, plural KTVs)
- Karaoke television, a form of interactive musical entertainment.
- Most KTV clubs in Taiwan have since followed a single architectural formula: […]2004, Avron Boretz, "Carousing and Masculinity: The Cultural Production of Gender in Taiwan", in Catherine Farris, Anru Lee, Murray Rubinstein, Women in the New Taiwan: Gender Roles and Gender...
- They are enshrined and worshiped on the table as ‘holy scripture’ for KTV devotees.2006, Tsen Wang, "DEMO Exegesis: Virtual Songs", in Kevin K. W. Wong et al., Proceedings of Third Australasian Conference of Interactice Entertainment, Murdoch University, page 34
- Karaoke box, a karaoke entertainment establishment.
- The longest take of the film, where the underwold and political figures decide the case of Flatty and Kao in the shadowy interstices of a KTV, […]2009, James Udden, No Man an Island: The Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien, Hong Kong University Press, page 139
- “Anyway, in order to take my mind off of the problem, my wife suggested we go to a KTV,” Su said.2012, Peter Martel, Gator Tango and the Higgs Boson, Strategic Book Publishing and Rights, page 67
Proper noun
KTV
- Kondatam Television (a popular Tamil TV channel)
Forms of KTV
| plural | KTVs |
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Origin of KTV
From Chinese KTV. Late 1980s Taiwanese Pseudo-English initialism from Japanese カラオケ (karaoke) + English TV. Modelled after the earlier MTV "movie TV", which in turn repurposed the initialism from the earlier meaning "music TV", copied from the American cable TV network of that name. This term is chiefly used in mainland China, Taiwan and Cambodia and Chinese speakers globally.
From Kondatam TV.
Words formed from KTV
Phrases with KTV
Questions about KTV
- What does KTV mean?
- KTV means karaoke television, a form of interactive musical entertainment.
- What part of speech is KTV?
- KTV can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of KTV?
- The plural of KTV is KTVs.
Words near KTV in the dictionary
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