videos

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of video.

   The museum digitized hundreds of videos from its film archive.

   Streaming platforms host millions of videos uploaded by ordinary users.

   Note

   The plural belongs only to the countable uses: individual clips, films or recordings, as in a channel full of music videos. When video names the medium or format itself, as in something shot on video, it is uncountable and takes no plural, so "shot on videos" sounds wrong. The same split runs through the dated VHS use: a shelf of videos, but a film released on video.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of video.

   He videos his daughter's soccer games every weekend.

   She always videos the fireworks on New Year's Eve.

   Note

   Its spelling matches the noun plural, so only the sentence tells them apart: with a subject in front of it, it is a verb. The verb can take an object or stand alone (she videos the fireworks, he videos for the local club). In British usage it can also mean recording a television program, so someone who videos the match may simply be taping the broadcast.

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