vlog

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UK/ˈvlɒɡ/UK/ˈviːˌlɒɡ/US/ˈvlɑɡ/US/ˈviːˌlɑɡ/

noun

A weblog using video as its primary presentation format.

Similar
videoblog
OriginEnglish blog ← Middle English bok ← Old English bōc →
Less commonFirst used 21st c.Scrabble 8
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Meanings

nounvlog (plural vlogs)

plural vlogs · alternative V-log · alternative v-log

  1. InternetA weblog using video as its primary presentation format.First known use 21st c.

    When you create this kind of videoless vlog, where you don't have the video recorded on a camcorder, you have to be more conscious of the story you want to tell.

    2006, Stephanie Cottrell Bryant, Videoblogging for Dummies, page 83

    Synonyms: videoblog

verbvlog (third-person singular simple present vlogs, present participle vlogging, simple past and past participle vlogged)

present singular third person vlogs · participle present vlogging · participle past vlogged · past vlogged · alternative V-log · alternative v-log

  1. InternetintransitiveTo contribute to a video weblog.

    I like to take walks when I'm having my breaks at work, and then I vlog my walks and put them online. I can just ramble on about philosophy, or whatever.

    2005 September 10, “Vloggers get political in Norway”, in BBC Online
  2. InternettransitiveTo post (something) to a video weblog.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA weblog using video as its primary presentation format.

Similar
videoblog
Also see
vblogvidblogvideoblog

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*weyd-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*widéh₁yeti
  3. Proto-Italic*widēō
  4. Latinvideō
  5. Englishaudioinflu.
  6. Englishvideo
  7. Proto-Indo-European*weyh₁-?
  8. Proto-Indo-European*wiHrós
  9. Proto-Germanic*weraz
  10. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*h₂életi
  12. Proto-Germanic*alaną
  13. Proto-Germanic*aldiz
  14. Proto-Germanic*weraldiz
  15. Proto-West Germanic*weraldi
  16. Old Englishweorold
  17. Middle Englishworld
  18. Englishworld
  19. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  20. Proto-Indo-European*dwi-
  21. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  22. Proto-Indo-European*h₁weydʰh₁-
  23. Proto-Indo-European*h₁weydʰh₁ós
  24. Proto-Germanic*wīdaz
  25. Old Englishwīd
  26. Englishwide
  27. Englishworldwide
  28. Proto-Indo-European*webʰ-
  29. Proto-Germanic*webaną
  30. Proto-Germanic*wabją
  31. Old Englishwebb
  32. Middle Englishweb
  33. Englishweb
  34. EnglishWorld Wide Webellip.
  35. EnglishWeb
  36. Proto-Indo-European*legʰ-
  37. Proto-Indo-European*légʰyeti
  38. Proto-Germanic*ligjaną
  39. Old Norseliggjader.?
  40. Middle Englishlogge
  41. Englishlog
  42. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂ǵosder.?
  43. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂g-der.?
  44. Proto-Germanic*bōks
  45. Proto-West Germanic*bōk
  46. Old Englishbōc
  47. Middle Englishbok
  48. Englishbook
  49. Englishlogbook
  50. Englishlog
  51. Englishweblog
  52. Englishblog
  53. Englishvlog

Blend of video + blog, itself a rebracketing of weblog.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Chinese Mandarin vlog
  • vlogweblog using video
Czech vlog
  • vlogweblog using video
Dutch vlog
  • vlogweblog using video
Esperanto vlogo
  • vlogoweblog using video
Estonian vlogi, vlogima
  • vlogiweblog using video
  • vlogimato contribute
  • vlogimato post
Finnish vlogi, vlogata
  • vlogiweblog using video
  • vlogatato contribute
  • vlogatato post
French vlog, vlogue
  • vlogweblog using video
  • vlogueweblog using video
German Videoblog, Vlog
  • Videoblogweblog using video
  • Vlogweblog using video
  • V-logweblog using video
Hungarian vlog
  • vlogweblog using video
Korean 브이로그
  • 브이로그 (beu'irogeu)weblog using video
Māori iripāho
  • iripāhoweblog using video
Polish vlog
  • vlogweblog using video
Portuguese vlog, videoblog
  • vlogweblog using video
  • videoblogweblog using video
  • vlogarto contribute
  • vlogarto post
Russian влог
  • влог (vlog)weblog using video
Spanish videobitácora
  • videobitácoraweblog using video
Swedish vlogg, vlogga
  • vloggweblog using video
  • vloggato contribute
  • vloggato post
Turkish vlog
  • vlogweblog using video

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with vlog

blogfogogprogOggbogcogsmogsogcloghoggmogtogbullfrogsloggrogsnogvogagogpoggetroggloggsplogwaag
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Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

“vlog.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vlog. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “vlog,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vlog.

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