video

UK/ˈvɪd.i.əʊ//ˈvɪd.i.oʊ/

video noun: transient visual content or media, processed with technology, especially electronic.

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Noun

video (countable and uncountable, plural videos or (rare, humorous) videmus or (nonstandard) videoes)

(uncountable) Transient visual content or media, processed with technology, especially electronic.
- Early TV used film to record video.
- Which cable is for the video feed?
(countable) A recording or medium of visual content, especially audiovisual content for playback; a motion picture, movie, film.
- We edited a video montage of Robbie's first birthday.
- We used to make videos on tape recorders.
Synonyms:

clip, vid
(dated) Television content or media.
(dated) videotape, VHS.

Verb

video (third-person singular simple present videoes, present participle videoing, simple past and past participle videoed)

(UK) To record using a video camera, to videotape.
(UK) To record a television program.
(ambitransitive) To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.

video meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

video in Hindi

television show, movie: वीडियो vīḍiyo
motion picture stored on VHS: वीडियो vīḍiyo

video in Tamil

நிகழ்படம், காணொளி, ஒளிதம், விழியம்

video in Marathi

film clip: व्हिडियो vhiḍiyo

video in Urdu

television show, movie: وِیڈِیو vīḍiyo
motion picture stored on VHS: وِیڈِیو vīḍiyo

More languagesFewer languages

video in Bengali: ভিডিও bhiḍiō
video in Telugu: వీడియో
video in Malayalam: വീഡിയോ vīḍiyō
video in Kannada: ಕಾಣುಲಿ, ಕಾಣ್ಕೆ, ಓಡುತಿಟ್ಟ
video in Punjabi: ਵੀਡੀਓ, ਵੀਡਿਓ
video in Gujarati: દૂરદર્શન dūrdarśan
video in Odia: ଭିଡିଓ, ଭିଡ଼ିଓ
video in Nepali: भिडियो bhiḍiyo
video in Pashto: ویډو
video in Arabic: فِيدِيُو fīdiyū, فيديو fīdyu, vīdyu
video in Malay: video
video in Indonesian: video, kaset video
video in Persian: ویدِیو vidiyo
video in Thai: วิดีโอ wí-dii-oo
video in Vietnamese: vi-đê-ô, băng hình
video in Myanmar: ဗီဒီယို bidiyui, ဗွီဒီယို bwidiyui

Examples of video in a sentence

His bit about video games was not nearly as entertaining as the other segments of his show.
I started to watch the video yesterday, but could only finish it this evening.
I just saw the video where he opens the door and gets the surprise! LOL!

All 40 example sentences with video

Synonyms of video

clip
vid

Forms of video

Noun
plural	videos
plural (humorous, rare)	videmus
plural (nonstandard)	videoes
Verb
third-person singular present	videoes
present participle	videoing
past participle	videoed
past	videoed

Plural of video: videos

Origin of video

From the root vide of Latin videō (“to see”) + -o, formed in analogy to audio.

Words formed from video

Phrases with video

98 more phrasesFewer phrases

Questions about video

What does video mean?: Video means transient visual content or media, processed with technology, especially electronic.
What is video in Hindi?: Video in Hindi is वीडियो (vīḍiyo). See Video meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is video?: Video can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce video?: Video is pronounced /ˈvɪd.i.əʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of video?: The plural of video is videos.

Words near video in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: video (page history and authors); video (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); video (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); വീഡിയോ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); video (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); video (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); video (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); भिडियो (Nepali) (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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