podcast
noun · verb
Simple meaning
A series of audio shows you can download or stream and listen to any time.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
pawdkastSay the bold part a little louder.
IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈpɔdkæst
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.
Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
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.
looselyby extension
An individual episode of such a program.
verb
Distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer
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.
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: 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.
Used this way, podcast is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It turns up most in technology contexts.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Where it naturally appears
- Technology
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use podcast
- “I listen to a funny podcast every Tuesday morning.”
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