podcast

Two podcasters about to record an episode of a podcast (sense 1).

Blend of iPod (“portable music player made by Apple”) +‎ broadcast,[1] probably coined by the British technologist and broadcaster Ben Hammersley (born 1976) who proposed the word podcasting in 2004.[2]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒdkɑːst/, /-kæst/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑdˌkæst/, /ˈpɔd-/
• Rhymes: (RP) -ɒdkɑːst, (RP) -ɒdkæst, (GA) -ɑdkæst, (GA) -ɔdkæst
• Hyphenation: pod‧cast

podcast (plural podcasts)

1. A programme, especially an audio programme, 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. [from early 21st c.]

   Synonym: blogcast

   • 2007, Andy [J. Williams] Affleck, “Plan Your Podcast”, in Take Control of Podcasting on the Mac, Berkeley, Calif.: Peachpit Press, →ISBN; republished in “Plan Your Podcast”, in Take Control of Podcasting (1.0), San Diego, Calif.: Alt Concepts, 2020, →ISBN:

     There's no restriction for what a podcast should and should not be. Of course, if you cover all these topics and more, you may find it harder to find an audience than if you focus on a narrower range and cover it well. Finding listeners is simpler if your podcast can be summarized in a sentence. More people will sample your show if it fits in a category in a podcast directory—like that found in the iTunes Store—than if it ends up lumped in a generic catch-all list.

   • 2016, Matthew Anniss, Create Your Own Podcast, Capstone, →ISBN, page 20:

     Try listening to a mix of well-known podcasts. You'll soon find that the best always feature hosts that have their own unique voice.

2. (loosely) An individual episode of such a programme.

In precise usage, the term podcast refers to the programme itself, whereas each individual audio recording is referred to as an episode; in broad usage, metonymy blurs this distinction (as it also does with analogous terms such as broadcast and television show).

• audiocast
• netcast
• webcast

• egocast
• godcast, Godcast

• vidcast
• videocast
• vodcast

• podcatch
• podcatching

podcast (third-person singular simple present podcasts, present participle podcasting, simple past and past participle podcasted or podcast)

1. (transitive) To deliver (information) in the form of a programme, especially an audio programme, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones. [from early 21st c.]
2. (intransitive) To deliver a programme, especially an audio programme, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones. [from early 21st c.]

• podcastable
• podcaster
• podcasting (noun)

• podcast on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• podcats

Unadapted borrowing from English podcast.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpodkɑst/, [ˈpo̞dkɑs̠t̪]
• IPA^(key): /ˈpodkæst/, [ˈpo̞dkæs̠t̪]
• Syllabification^(key): pod‧cast

podcast

1. podcast

   Synonym: puheohjelma

From English podcast.

• IPA^(key): /pɔd.kast/

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

podcast m (plural podcasts)

1. (Internet, neologism) podcast

   Synonym: (Quebec) balado

• podcaster

From English podcast.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpotkɒst], [ˈpotkɛst]
• Hyphenation: pod‧cast
• Rhymes: -ɒst, -ɛst

podcast (plural podcastok or podcastek)

1. (Internet) podcast (audio programme produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet)

or:

Unadapted borrowing from English podcast.

podcast m (invariable)

1. podcast

• podkast

Borrowed from English podcast.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔt.kast/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔtkast
• Syllabification: pod‧cast

podcast m inan

1. podcast

• podcast in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• podcast in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English podcast.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pɔ.d͡ʒi.ˈkɛs.tʃi/, /po.d͡ʒi.ˈkɛs.tʃi/

podcast m (plural podcasts)

1. podcast (audio program delivered over the Internet)

• pódcast

From English podcast.

• IPA^(key): /podˈkast/ [poð̞ˈkast̪]
• Rhymes: -ast
• Syllabification: pod‧cast

podcast m (plural podcast or podcasts)

1. podcast

Unadapted borrowing from English podcast.

• IPA^(key): /podˈcest/
• Hyphenation: pod‧kast
• Rhymes: -est

podcast (definite accusative podcasti, plural podcastler)

1. podcast