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noun

ˈvi-dē-ˌō How to pronounce video (audio)
Definition of videonext
as in videotape
a recording (as of a movie) for playback on a TV every Thanksgiving, our family watches videos of past holiday gatherings

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adjective

as in photographic

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Recent Examples of video
Noun
The image was part of a video montage attacking the political left during the GOP event in Dallas. — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026 The fast-talking Sun, who previously worked at Chinese video streaming platforms iQIYI, Youku and ByteDance’s Douyin, launched Feixiang Universe last year to produce AI films. — Ling Wei, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Adjective
What sounds like multiple gunshots can be heard in a video ABC News reporter Selina Wang posted of her taping at the White House. — Zac Anderson, USA Today, 23 May 2026 Her video podcast will go twice-weekly—and Amazon will build out a universe around Oprah's Favorite Things, book club, and content from 25 seasons of her talk show. — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for video
Recent Examples of Synonyms for video
  1. videotape
  2. photographic
  3. tape
  4. graphic
  5. pictorial
Noun
  • The Pontiac, Michigan show – which was filmed on two-inch videotape and has never been previously released – has a very similar setlist.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2026
  • When videotape arrived, many predicted that watching movies at home would damage theatres.
    — Cory Jacobson, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of videotape
Adjective
  • Baldwin Lee came to photographic renown pretty late in life, mostly for his in-close-and-intense pictures of small-town Black Southerners made in the 1980s and collected in an epic monograph in 2022.
    — Baldwin Lee, Curbed, 10 Sep. 2026
  • There are improvements to photographic styles, offering texture and grain control.
    — Jay Peters, The Verge, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of photographic
Noun
  • On Thursday, Vikings offensive coordinator Wes Phillips talked about preparing for Sunday by watching tape from Gannon’s time in Philadelphia and Arizona.
    — Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Investigators searching the case turn up human remains, execution tapes, Polaroids and film canisters cataloging years of violence.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of tape
Adjective
  • Class libraries and graphical frameworks supplied windows, menus, text editors, data structures and interaction patterns that developers could reuse and adapt.
    — Boris Kontsevoi, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Her fantastical Biblical scenes, of a graphic, storybook sensibility, sometimes showed angels, and Christ himself, as chalky white, and this rang in some Black critical circles as a sign of backwater unsophistication.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of graphic
Adjective
  • In childhood, in adulthood, in her old age, Evans was besotted by dreams, turbulent, awesome, pictorial dreams.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
  • These pictorial cards also capture scenes along the Fox River, as well as schools, churches, hotels, historic buildings, bridges, the railroad, events and celebrations.
    — Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of pictorial

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“Video.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/video. Accessed 15 Sep. 2026.

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