home video

noun

plural home videos

1

: a homemade video (see video entry 1 sense 1) that is not usually intended for commercial release or distribution

We showed our friends home videos of our vacation in the Caribbean.

People are consuming millions of hours of shaky, selfie-quality home video on their phones every day.

—Karen Bussone

… make a home video, using a cell phone or camera, of yourself performing your selection.

—The Brunswick Beacon (Shallotte, North Carolina)

2

: prerecorded video (see video entry 1 sense 1a) marketed for home viewing

The popular TV series … returns to home video with the DVD and Blu-ray releases of … Season Three.

—Mike Spring

It's not clear when other [streaming] platforms will add season four, but it usually takes several months for new seasons to receive a home video release …

—Business Insider US

Examples of home video in a Sentence

the latest releases in home video

We watched a home video of their wedding.

Recent Examples on the Web

The sound has become a trending audio on the platform, where it is frequently paired with memes or home videos such as this one that show family members or pets waiting in line. —Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025

Many live online as photo albums stored in iCloud, playlists curated on Spotify, home videos in Dropbox, and archives of emails and messages that tell your story. —Jamie Hopkins, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025

All of the home video systems under development included a storage medium—film, magnetic tape, nonmagnetic tape, and vinyl discs of various size and composition—and a device to play back the audio and video in high resolution. —Allison Marsh, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Sep. 2025

That changed when Kennedy showed Sheehy his vast collection of home videos that documented most of his underwater excursions with Willy. —Addie Morfoot, Variety, 15 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined at sense 2