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MTV

MTV proper noun: a television channel that originally showed mostly music videos but now shows a wide variety of content.

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Proper noun

MTV

  1. A television channel that originally showed mostly music videos but now shows a wide variety of content.
    • I want my, I want my MTV / Now look at them yo-yo's, that's the way you do it / You play the guitar on the MTV / That ain't workin', that's the way you do it / Money for nothin', and chicks for free1985, Sting, Mark Knopfler, “Money for Nothing”, in Brothers in Arms, performed by Dire Straits
    • We won the race, got out of the place / Went back home, got a brand new face for the boys on MTV1990, “Freedom! ’90”, in Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1, performed by George Michael
    Synonyms:
    Empty-Vee

Examples of MTV in a sentence

  • So the FCC won't let me be / Or let me be me, so let me see / They tried to shut me down on MTV2002, Eminem, “Without Me”:
  • In the amended complaint, Carter is accused of raping the then-13-year-old Jane Doe at an afterparty for the MTV Video Music Awards in the year 2000.2024 December 14, Elizabeth Wagmeister, “Jay-Z says inconsistencies in rape accuser’s story proves her attorney was looking for ‘money and...

Synonyms of MTV

Origin of MTV

Originally an initialism of Music Television, incorporating the earlier abbreviation TV for television.

Words formed from MTV

Questions about MTV

What does MTV mean?
MTV means a television channel that originally showed mostly music videos but now shows a wide variety of content.
How do you use MTV in a sentence?
So the FCC won't let me be / Or let me be me, so let me see / They tried to shut me down on MTV
What part of speech is MTV?
MTV is a proper noun.

Words near MTV in the dictionary

  1. MTTR
  2. MTTs
  3. MTU
  4. mtumba
  5. MTUs
  6. MTV
  7. MTV generation
  8. MTW
  9. Mtwara
  10. MTWs
  11. mtx

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Adapted from Wiktionary: MTV (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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