Yahoo!
/ˈjɑːhuː/
Yahoo! proper noun: a web portal and search engine located at yahoo.com.
Proper noun
Yahoo!
- A web portal and search engine located at yahoo.com.
Yahoo! meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
Yahoo! in Hindi
- a popular web portal
- याहू! yāhū!, याहू yāhū
Yahoo! in Marathi
- a popular web portal
- याहू! yāhū!, याहू yāhū
Yahoo! in Urdu
- a popular web portal
- یاہو! yāhū!, یاہو yāhū
Yahoo! in Bengali
- a popular web portal
- ইয়াহু! iẏahu!, ইয়াহু iẏahu
More languagesFewer languages
- Yahoo! in Sanskrit
- याहू! yāhū!
- Yahoo! in Nepali
- याहू! yāhū!
- Yahoo! in Arabic
- يَاهُو! yāhū!, يَاهُو yāhū
- Yahoo! in Persian
- یاهو! yâhu!, یاهو yâhu
- Yahoo! in Thai
- ยาฮู! yaahoo!, ยาฮู yaahoo
Forms of Yahoo!
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Origin of Yahoo!
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the name itself is an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”, incorporated in 1995. However, other sources claim the main inspiration by founders Jerry Yang and David Filo originates from Yahoo, the race of barbaric beings from the Jonathan Swift novel Gulliver's Travels (perhaps with a semantic notion of strongly exploring the then-"wild" late 90s Internet), thence the acronym apparently being a backronym. Also compare Etymology 2 of yahoo; the exclamation point was supposedly added to "strengthen" the trademark.
Words formed from Yahoo!
Questions about Yahoo!
- What does Yahoo! mean?
- Yahoo! means a web portal and search engine located at yahoo.com.
- What is Yahoo! in Hindi?
- Yahoo! in Hindi is याहू! (yāhū!), याहू (yāhū). See Yahoo! meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Yahoo!?
- Yahoo! is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Yahoo!?
- Yahoo! is pronounced /ˈjɑːhuː/.
Words near Yahoo! in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Yahoo! (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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