Meanings
plural videocassette recorders
- An electronic device for recording and playing back television programs and movies (featuring visual images and sound) on a videocassette that can be attached to a television set.
Synonyms: VCR, VHS player
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn electronic device for recording and playing back television programs and movies (featuring visual images and sound) on a videocassette that can be attached to a television set.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Catalan magnetoscopi
- magnetoscopirecording device
Chinese Mandarin 錄像機 /录像机
- 錄像機 /录像机 (lùxiàngjī)recording device
Danish videobåndoptager
- videobåndoptagerrecording device
Dutch videorecorder
- videorecorderrecording device
Estonian videomagnetofon
- videomagnetofonrecording device
Finnish videonauhuri
- videonauhurirecording device
French magnétoscope
- magnétoscoperecording device
German Videorekorder
- Videorekorderrecording device
Greek μαγνητοσκόπιο
- μαγνητοσκόπιο (magnitoskópio)recording device
Hungarian videómagnó, videólejátszó
- videómagnórecording device
- videólejátszórecording device
- videórecording device
- videókészülékrecording device
Icelandic myndbandstæki
- myndbandstækirecording device
Irish fístaifeadán caiséid
- fístaifeadán caiséidrecording device
Italian videoregistratore
- videoregistratorerecording device
Japanese ビデオカセットレコーダー, ビデオデッキ
- ビデオカセットレコーダー (bideokasettorekōdā)recording device
- ビデオデッキ (bideodekki)recording device
Korean 비디오카세트 레코더
- 비디오카세트 레코더 (bidiokaseteu rekodeo)recording device
Malay perakam kaset video
- perakam kaset videorecording device
Polish magnetowid, wideomagnetofon
- magnetowidrecording device
- wideomagnetofonrecording device
Russian видеомагнитофо́н
- видеомагнитофо́н (videomagnitofón)recording device
Spanish vídeo, videograbador
- vídeorecording device
- videograbadorrecording device
- videograbadorarecording device
Swedish videobandspelare, video
- videobandspelarerecording device
- videorecording device
Ukrainian відеомагнітофо́н
- відеомагнітофо́н (videomahnitofón)recording device
Cite this entry
videocassette recorder. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/videocassette%20recorder
“videocassette recorder.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/videocassette%20recorder. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “videocassette recorder,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/videocassette%20recorder.
Source: videocassette recorder on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.