"videoke" meaning in English

See videoke in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: videokes [plural]
Etymology: Blend of video + karaoke. First attested in the 1990s. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|video|karaoke}} Blend of video + karaoke Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} videoke (countable and uncountable, plural videokes)
  1. (Philippines) A karaoke; a form of entertainment popular in clubs, at parties, etc, in which individual members of the public sing along to pre-recorded instrumental versions of popular songs, the lyrics of which are displayed for the singer on a screen in time with the music. Tags: Philippines, countable, uncountable

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "video",
        "3": "karaoke"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of video + karaoke",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of video + karaoke. First attested in the 1990s.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "videokes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "videoke (countable and uncountable, plural videokes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Philippine English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, Christine Bacareza Balance, Tropical Renditions: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America:",
          "text": "“Generously coated in candy-colored skulls and psychedelic scenes of suffering,” the videoke machine, as Manila-based pop critic Alice Sarmiento describes it, plays a loop of a “muzak rendition” of Sinatra's anthem, its lyrics superimposed over video and tabloid headlines about the killings \"with the words going up in flames as the song played.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A karaoke; a form of entertainment popular in clubs, at parties, etc, in which individual members of the public sing along to pre-recorded instrumental versions of popular songs, the lyrics of which are displayed for the singer on a screen in time with the music."
      ],
      "id": "en-videoke-en-noun-RNQGdCix",
      "links": [
        [
          "karaoke",
          "karaoke"
        ],
        [
          "entertainment",
          "entertainment"
        ],
        [
          "club",
          "club"
        ],
        [
          "parties",
          "parties"
        ],
        [
          "public",
          "public"
        ],
        [
          "pre-recorded",
          "pre-recorded"
        ],
        [
          "instrumental version",
          "instrumental version"
        ],
        [
          "popular",
          "popular"
        ],
        [
          "song",
          "song"
        ],
        [
          "lyrics",
          "lyrics"
        ],
        [
          "display",
          "display"
        ],
        [
          "singer",
          "singer"
        ],
        [
          "screen",
          "screen"
        ],
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Philippines) A karaoke; a form of entertainment popular in clubs, at parties, etc, in which individual members of the public sing along to pre-recorded instrumental versions of popular songs, the lyrics of which are displayed for the singer on a screen in time with the music."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Philippines",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "videoke"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "video",
        "3": "karaoke"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of video + karaoke",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of video + karaoke. First attested in the 1990s.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "videokes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "videoke (countable and uncountable, plural videokes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English blends",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 3 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Philippine English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, Christine Bacareza Balance, Tropical Renditions: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America:",
          "text": "“Generously coated in candy-colored skulls and psychedelic scenes of suffering,” the videoke machine, as Manila-based pop critic Alice Sarmiento describes it, plays a loop of a “muzak rendition” of Sinatra's anthem, its lyrics superimposed over video and tabloid headlines about the killings \"with the words going up in flames as the song played.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A karaoke; a form of entertainment popular in clubs, at parties, etc, in which individual members of the public sing along to pre-recorded instrumental versions of popular songs, the lyrics of which are displayed for the singer on a screen in time with the music."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "karaoke",
          "karaoke"
        ],
        [
          "entertainment",
          "entertainment"
        ],
        [
          "club",
          "club"
        ],
        [
          "parties",
          "parties"
        ],
        [
          "public",
          "public"
        ],
        [
          "pre-recorded",
          "pre-recorded"
        ],
        [
          "instrumental version",
          "instrumental version"
        ],
        [
          "popular",
          "popular"
        ],
        [
          "song",
          "song"
        ],
        [
          "lyrics",
          "lyrics"
        ],
        [
          "display",
          "display"
        ],
        [
          "singer",
          "singer"
        ],
        [
          "screen",
          "screen"
        ],
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Philippines) A karaoke; a form of entertainment popular in clubs, at parties, etc, in which individual members of the public sing along to pre-recorded instrumental versions of popular songs, the lyrics of which are displayed for the singer on a screen in time with the music."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Philippines",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "videoke"
}

Download raw JSONL data for videoke meaning in English (2.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (9e2b7d3 and f2e72e5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.