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Karaoke

Karaoke

See also: karaoke, karaoké, and karaokê

German

Noun

Karaoke n (uncountable)

  1. karaoke (form of entertainment, in which individual members of the public sing)

karaoke

karaoke

See also: Karaoke, karaoké, and karaokê

English

Karaoke in an Irish pub

Noun

karaoke (countable and uncountable, plural karaokes)

  1. (uncountable) A form of entertainment popular in clubs, at parties, etc, in which individual members of the public sing along to pre-recorded instrumental versions of popular songs, the lyrics of which are displayed for the singer on a screen in time with the music.
    • 1993 March, Wagner, Michael J.; Brick, John S., “Using Karaoke in the Classroom”, in Music Educators Journal, volume 79, number 7, ISSN 0027-4321, JSTOR 3398617, page 44:
      The karaoke has been well received by those who frequent the oriental cabaret scene and adopt its particular social behaviors such as conversation, companionship, being seen, and showing off.
    • 2006 February 24, Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, season 7, episode 2:
      American Idol will always have a place in my heart. It's where I met Clay. And what could be more exciting than televised karaoke?
    • 2008 December 9, Raftery, Brian, Don't Stop Believin': How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life, Cambridge: Da Capo Press, ISBN 9780306815836, LCCN 2008034271, OCLC 191926214, OL 17073509M, page 1:
      I was always split on Henley. Then I found out that he doesn’t want people to sing his songs at karaoke. In fact, Henley actually forbids karaoke companies from rerecording songs in his catalog.
  2. (countable) A karaoke session.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

karaoke (third-person singular simple present karaokes, present participle karaokeing, simple past and past participle karaoked)

  1. (intransitive) To perform karaoke.

See also


Esperanto

Etymology

karaoko (karaoke) + -e

Adverb

karaoke

  1. in a karaoke manner
    kanti karaoke
    to sing karaoke
    • 2016 July 9, Tani Hiroyuki, “Re: Asia esperanto”, in soc.culture.esperanto, Usenet, message-ID <cclltn$j17$1@nwall2.odn.ne.jp>:
      Se vi ŝatas kanti karaoke, vi estas karaokulo.
      If you like to sing karaoke, you are a ‘karaoke-er’.
    • 2005 May, Hämäläinen, Riitta, “KEF post kvin jaroj refoje en Finnlando”, in Esperanto en Danio, volume 12, number 2, Dana Esperanto-Asocio, ISSN 0909-6124:
      “La plej amuza programero estos verŝajne esperanta karaokeo kun la efektiva bando mem – se nur iu kuraĝos karaoke kanti “Ĉu vi pretas” kun Dolchamar”, ridetas Riitta.
      “The most fun event will be, it seems, Esperanto karaoke with the actual band itself – if only someone will have the courage to sing karaoke “Ĉu vi pretas?” with Dolchamar”, smiles Riitta.

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Finnish

Etymology

< Japanese

Noun

karaoke

  1. karaoke (form of entertainment)

Declension

Inflection of karaoke (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative karaoke
genitive karaoken
partitive karaokea
illative karaokeen
singular plural
nominative karaoke
accusative nom. karaoke
gen. karaoken
genitive karaoken
partitive karaokea
inessive karaokessa
elative karaokesta
illative karaokeen
adessive karaokella
ablative karaokelta
allative karaokelle
essive karaokena
translative karaokeksi
instructive
abessive karaoketta
comitative

Japanese

Romanization

karaoke

  1. rōmaji reading of カラオケ

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ka.ɾa.ˈɔ.kɨ/
  • Hyphenation: ka‧ra‧o‧ke

Noun

karaoke m (plural karaokes)

  1. Alternative form of karaokê

Spanish

Etymology

From English karaoke, from Japanese カラオケ (karaoke).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.ɾa.ˈo.ke/

Noun

karaoke m (uncountable)

  1. karaoke
  2. karaoke machine
  3. karaoke bar
  4. (slang, Chile) felación