podcast

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-/
• Hyphenation: pod‧cast
• Rhymes: (RP) -ɒdkɑːst, (RP) -ɒdkæst, (GA) -ɑdkæst, (GA) -ɔdkæst

podcast (plural podcasts)

2. 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. [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.

   • 2025 March 17, Andrew Marantz, “The Battle for the Bros”, in The New Yorker‎^[2], →ISSN:

     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.

3. (loosely, by extension) An individual episode of such a program.

• In precise usage, the term podcast refers to the program 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
• shortcast

• 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 program, especially an audio program, 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 program, especially an audio program, 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): /ˈpɔtˌkɑst/, [ˈpɔtˌkɑːst]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pod‧cast

podcast m (plural podcasts, diminutive podcastje n)

1. podcast

Unadapted borrowing from English podcast.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpodkɑst/, [ˈpo̞dkɑ̝s̠t]
• IPA^(key): /ˈpodkæst/, [ˈpo̞dk̟æs̠t]
• Rhymes: -odkɑst
• Syllabification^(key): pod‧cast
• Hyphenation^(key): pod‧cast

podcast

1. podcast

   Synonyms: ääniohjelma, puheohjelma

• “podcast”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

Borrowed 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

Unadapted borrowing from English podcast.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔt.kast/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔtkast
• Syllabification: pod‧cast

podcast m inan

1. (Internet) podcast (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)

• podcast in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English podcast.

podcast m (plural podcasts)

1. podcast (audio program delivered over the Internet)

• pódcast

Borrowed from English podcast.

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

podcast m (plural podcast or podcast)

1. podcast

podcast c

1. a podcast (show, or episode)

   Synonym: podd

• podcasta

• podcast in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• podcast in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Unadapted borrowing from English podcast.

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

podcast (definite accusative podcasti, plural podcastler)

1. podcast