podcast

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English

Etymology

Blend of iPod (“portable music player made by Apple”) +‎ broadcast, probably coined by the British technologist and broadcaster Ben Hammersley (born 1976) who proposed the word podcasting in 2004.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒdkɑːst/, /-kæst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑdˌkæst/, /ˈpɔd-/
• Hyphenation: pod‧cast
• Rhymes: (RP) -ɒdkɑːst, (RP) -ɒdkæst, (GA) -ɑdkæst, (GA) -ɔdkæst

Noun

podcast (plural podcasts)

2. A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones. [from early 21st c.]

   Synonym: blogcast

   1. (loosely, by extension) An individual episode of such a program.

Usage notes

• In precise usage, the term podcast refers to the program itself, whereas each individual audio recording is referred to as an episode; in broad usage, metonymy blurs this distinction (as it also does with analogous terms such as broadcast and television show).

Hypernyms

• audiocast
• netcast
• webcast

Hyponyms

• egocast
• godcast, Godcast
• shortcast

Coordinate terms

• vidcast
• videocast
• vodcast

Derived terms

Related terms

• podcatch
• podcatching

Translations

Verb

podcast (third-person singular simple present podcasts, present participle podcasting, simple past and past participle podcasted or podcast)

1. (transitive) To deliver (information) in the form of a program, especially an audio program, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones. [from early 21st c.]
2. (intransitive) To deliver a program, especially an audio program, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones. [from early 21st c.]

Derived terms

• podcastable
• podcaster
• podcasting (noun)

Translations

References

Further reading

• podcast on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• podcats

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English podcast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔtˌkɑst/, [ˈpɔtˌkɑːst]
• Hyphenation: pod‧cast

Noun

podcast m (plural podcasts, diminutive podcastje n)

1. podcast

Derived terms

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English podcast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpodkɑst/, [ˈpo̞dkɑ̝s̠t]
• IPA^(key): /ˈpodkæst/, [ˈpo̞dk̟æs̠t]
• Rhymes: -odkɑst
• Hyphenation^(key): pod‧cast

Noun

podcast

1. podcast

   Synonyms: ääniohjelma, puheohjelma

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “podcast”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English podcast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔd.kast/

Noun

podcast m (plural podcasts)

1. (Internet, neologism) podcast

   Synonym: (Quebec) balado

Derived terms

• podcaster

Hungarian

Etymology

From English podcast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpotkɒst], [ˈpotkɛst]
• Hyphenation: pod‧cast
• Rhymes: -ɒst, -ɛst

Noun

podcast (plural podcastok or podcastek)

1. (Internet) podcast (audio programme produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet)

Declension

or:

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English podcast.

Noun

podcast m (invariable)

1. podcast

Polish

Alternative forms

• podkast

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English podcast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔt.kast/
• Rhymes: -ɔtkast
• Syllabification: pod‧cast

Noun

podcast m inan

1. (Internet) podcast (program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format, and designed for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones)

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• podcast in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English podcast.

Pronunciation

Noun

podcast m (plural podcasts)

1. podcast (audio program delivered over the Internet)

Spanish

Alternative forms

• pódcast

Etymology

Borrowed from English podcast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /podˈkast/ [poð̞ˈkast̪]
• Rhymes: -ast
• Syllabification: pod‧cast

Noun

podcast m (plural podcast or podcasts)

1. podcast

Swedish

Noun

podcast c

1. a podcast (show, or episode)

   Synonym: podd

Declension

Related terms

• podcasta

References

• podcast in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• podcast in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Turkish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English podcast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /podˈcest/
• Hyphenation: pod‧kast
• Rhymes: -est

Noun

podcast (definite accusative podcasti, plural podcastler)

1. podcast

Declension