"video chat" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: video chats [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} video chat (countable and uncountable, plural video chats)
  1. (Internet) An audiovisual conversation with one or more other people by means of telecommunication technology. Tags: Internet, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Internet Related terms: video call, video conference Translations (audiovisual conversation): videochat [masculine] (Dutch), videokeskustelu (Finnish), ビデオチャット (bideo chatto) (Japanese), видеоча́т (videočát) [masculine] (Russian), videochat [masculine] (Spanish), video chat [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-video_chat-en-noun-~nmpG8eJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 21 19

Verb

Forms: video chats [present, singular, third-person], video chatting [participle, present], video chatted [participle, past], video chatted [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} video chat (third-person singular simple present video chats, present participle video chatting, simple past and past participle video chatted)
  1. (intransitive, Internet) To participate in a video chat. Tags: Internet, intransitive Categories (topical): Internet Synonyms: videochat, video-chat
    Sense id: en-video_chat-en-verb-8vd4RFhA
  2. (transitive, Internet) To communicate with (someone) via video chat. Tags: Internet, transitive Categories (topical): Internet
    Sense id: en-video_chat-en-verb-~JSVATez

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for video chat meaning in English (3.9kB)

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