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VHS

VHS noun: a type of videotape originally developed by the Japanese company JVC.

vhs: a type of videotape originally developed by the Japanese company JVC
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Noun (1)

VHS (countable and uncountable, plural VHSes)

  1. A type of videotape originally developed by the Japanese company JVC.
    • The curt take on VHS is that it is a dead format, a quaint and sham way to watch a movie. Regardless, to date, there are quantities of VHS titles not available on DVD, and that may never be.2009, Jacques Boyreau, Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS Box, page 5
    • There is, it turns out, much demand for these old VHS tapes, price tags notwithstanding, and despite post-2006 advancements in technology.2021 February 20, Hannah Selinger, “Who Is Still Buying VHS Tapes?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2022

Noun (2) capitalized: VHs

VHs

  1. (plural) plural of VH

Forms of VHS

pluralVHSes

Origin of VHS

Initialism of Vertical Helical Scan, later reinterpreted as Video Home System.

Words formed from VHS

Phrases with VHS

Questions about VHS

What does VHS mean?
VHS means a type of videotape originally developed by the Japanese company JVC.
What part of speech is VHS?
VHS is a noun.
What is the plural of VHS?
The plural of VHS is VHSes.

Words near VHS in the dictionary

  1. vhost
  2. vhosts
  3. VHP
  4. VHR
  5. VHRs
  6. VHS
  7. VHS player
  8. VHS players
  9. VHS-C
  10. VHSes
  11. VHSIC

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Adapted from Wiktionary: VHS (page history and authors); VHs (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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