podcast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒdˌkɑːst/
ipa: /-ˌkæst/
ipa: /ˈpɑdˌkæst/
ipa: /ˈpɔd-/
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: [ˈpʰäd̥̚ˌkʰɛə̯s]
ipa: /ˈpɒdˌkɐːst/
ipa: /-ˌkæ(ː)st/
ipa: [ˈpʰɔt̚ˌkʰäs]
note: Indic
ipa: [ˈpɔɖˌkäːʂʈ]
rhymes: -ɒdkɑːst
rhymes: -ɒdkæst
Forms: form: podcasts
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *ənter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
Proto-Indo-European *neHd-
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Germanic *natją
Proto-West Germanic *nati
Old English nett
Middle English net
English net
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Germanic *werką
Proto-West Germanic *werk
Old English weorc
Middle English werk
English work
English network
English internetwork
English Internet
English i-
English pod
English iPod
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der.?
Proto-Germanic *braidaz
Proto-West Germanic *braid
Old English brād
Middle English brod
English broad
Proto-Germanic *kas-
Proto-Germanic *kastōną
Old Norse kastabor.
Middle English casten
English cast
English broadcast
blend
English podcast
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.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 2016, Matthew Anniss, Create Your Own Podcast, Capstone, →ISBN, page 20:
text: Yet some Monday-morning quarterbacks also noted that, just as 1960 was the first TV election and 2016 was the first social-media election, the 2024 Presidential campaign was the first to be conducted largely on live streams and long-form podcasts, media that happen to be thoroughly dominated by MAGA bros.
ref: 2025 March 17, Andrew Marantz, “The Battle for the Bros”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
synonyms: blogcast
glosses: A program, especially an audio program, 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.
glosses: An individual episode of such a program.
Hypernyms: audiocast
netcast
webcast
Hyponyms: egocast
godcast
Godcast
shortcast
Coordinate terms: vidcast
videocast
vodcast
Derived terms: PodAd
Podcastistan
podcat
podcatcher
podfading
podosphere
vodcast
Related terms: podcatch
podcatching