Added 19 October 2026 · word of the day, 19 October 2026
podcast
/ˈpɒdˌkɑːst/ verb
In Latin: acroāma Coined: 1976, by Ben Hammersley Wiktionary
verb Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about podcast at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- Distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer.
Origin
Blend of iPod (“portable music player made by Apple”) + broadcast, probably coined by the British technologist and broadcaster Ben Hammersley (born 1976) who proposed the word podcasting in 2004.
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