YouTube
/ˈjuːtʃuːb//ˈjutub/
YouTube proper noun: a video-sharing website.
Proper noun
YouTube
- A video-sharing website.
- Anthony just subscribed to someone on YouTube a day ago.
- Collectively, the users of YouTube; especially the content creator's viewers.
- Hi, how's it going YouTube! Sorry I wasn't able to upload a video last week!
Noun (1)
YouTube (countable and uncountable, plural YouTubes)
- Any website that allows users to upload content, particularly YouTube itself.
- None of this is to suggest that academic libraries should turn their websites into a YouTube or Facebook in which our user communities would create all the content,[…]2007, Steven J. Bell, John D. Shank, Academic librarianship by design
- There is all kinds of stuff that people post there- some of it is entertaining, some is actually useful as a template for studying or for business...it is sort of like a YouTube for documents.2008, Bradley L. Jones, Web 2.0 Heroes
- A small video that can be viewed online, particularly one hosted on YouTube.
- Then it's a YouTube of some kid trying to play "Radar Love" on a cheap guitar using only his feet,[…]2007, Andy Ihnatko, iPhone Fully Loaded
- Not too long ago, there was a YouTube of you two brawling. How did the musical collaboration happen?2009 March, Valerie McQueen, “Bring me the Horizon”, in Revolver
- A YouTube channel.
- National Theatre at Home also unveiled titles for the remainder of its season, which continues to release streams every Thursday at 2 PM ET on its YouTube, with productions remaining on demand through noon ET the following Thursday.2020 June 11, Dan Meyer, “National Theatre at Home to Broadcast A Midsummer Night's Dream, Starring Gwendoline Christie”, in Playbill
Verb
YouTube (third-person singular simple present YouTubes, present participle YouTubing, simple past and past participle YouTubed)
- To upload a video of something to YouTube.
- The revolution will not be televised. It will be YouTubed.2007 February 5, “Why YouTube gets my vote for political punditry”, in Guardian Unlimited
- To search for and view on YouTube.
- Inquiry elicited that he was a pop singer. I YouTubed him, revealing another ghastly microphone-gripping, anguished nasal wailer.2015 April 21, Bob Jones, “Appetite for quirky fulfilled”, in Wanganui Chronicle, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2015
- If you don't know me, YouTube me, because soon the whole world is going to know me.2017 July 20, Sammy Guevara, Impact Wrestling
- To upload or watch videos on YouTube.
Noun (2) capitalized: Youtube
Youtube
- Misspelling of YouTube.
YouTube meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
YouTube in Hindi
- a video-sharing website
- यूट्यूब yūṭyūb
YouTube in Tamil
- a video-sharing website
- வலைஒளி valai’oḷi
YouTube in Urdu
- a video-sharing website
- یُوٹْیُوب yūṭyūb
YouTube in Bengali
- a video-sharing website
- ইউটিউব iuṭiub
More languagesFewer languages
- YouTube in Arabic
- يُوتِيُوب yūtiyūb, يُوتْيُوب yūtyūb
- YouTube in Thai
- ยูทูบ yuu-túup
- YouTube in Vietnamese
- YouTube
- YouTube in Myanmar
- ယူကျု yu-kyu.
Forms of YouTube
| Proper noun | |
|---|---|
| alternative misspelling | Youtube |
| Noun | |
| plural | YouTubes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | YouTubes |
| present participle | YouTubing |
| past participle | YouTubed |
| past | YouTubed |
Origin of YouTube
A website name (from you + tube (“North American colloquial term for television”)) implying that users (you) may submit their own television (tube) content.
Words formed from YouTube
Phrases with YouTube
Questions about YouTube
- What does YouTube mean?
- YouTube means a video-sharing website.
- What is YouTube in Hindi?
- YouTube in Hindi is यूट्यूब (yūṭyūb). See YouTube meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is YouTube?
- YouTube can be a proper noun, a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce YouTube?
- YouTube is pronounced /ˈjuːtʃuːb/.
Words near YouTube in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: YouTube (page history and authors); Youtube (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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