video

vid-e-o · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    A recording of moving visual images made digitally or on videotape.

  2. 2.

    The system of recording, reproducing, or broadcasting moving visual images.

  3. 3.

    A short film or clip, especially one posted online.

  4. 4.

    Relating to the recording, reproducing, or broadcasting of moving visual images.

  5. 5.

    To make a video recording of something.

Forms

plural: videos

Related words

See also: audio, film, recording, television
Synonyms: clip, film, footage, recording

Etymology

From Latin "video" meaning "I see," from "videre" meaning "to see." The word was first used in English in the 1930s to describe television technology as opposed to audio (sound). It gained broader use with the invention of videotape and later digital video technology.