video chat

noun

An audiovisual conversation with one or more other people by means of telecommunication technology.

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Meanings

nounvideo chat (countable and uncountable, plural video chats)

plural video chats · alternative videochat · alternative video-chat

  1. InternetcountableuncountableAn audiovisual conversation with one or more other people by means of telecommunication technology.
verbvideo chat (third-person singular simple present video chats, present participle video chatting, simple past and past participle video chatted)

present singular third person video chats · participle present video chatting · participle past video chatted · past video chatted · alternative videochat · alternative video-chat

  1. InternetintransitiveTo participate in a video chat.
  2. InternettransitiveTo communicate with (someone) via video chat.

    With Apple’s solar farm, customers could now be confident that downloading an app or video-chatting a friend would not increase carbon pollution, Jackson said.

    2014 July 25, Suzanne Goldenberg, “Apple eyes solar to power the cloud and iPhone 6 sapphire manufacturing”, in The Guardian

Translations

Dutch videochat
  • videochataudiovisual conversation
Finnish videokeskustelu
  • videokeskusteluaudiovisual conversation
Japanese ビデオチャット
  • ビデオチャット (bideo chatto)audiovisual conversation
Russian видеоча́т
  • видеоча́т (videočát)audiovisual conversation
Spanish videochat, video chat
  • videochataudiovisual conversation
  • video chataudiovisual conversation
Cite this entry
APA

video chat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/video%20chat

MLA

“video chat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/video%20chat. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “video chat,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/video%20chat.

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