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Instagram

131 2.5
A social app for sharing photos and videos with other people
  • proper noun
  • Texting
: Instagram
  • I love sharing my travel photos on Instagram to keep my friends updated.
  • such as Instagram
  • Instagram and Facebook
  • Instagram and Twitter

You said LinkedIn is Instagram for people who got jobs.

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Examples

  • Over half of the world's top 100 brands are now on Instagram, by @JohnKoetsier

    Blog text (1)
  • Do you follow me on Instagram?

  • I need you to go to my Instagram and find a picture.

  • Not being on Instagram means I miss out on a lot of stuff.

  • We saw your Instagram story.

  • You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook.

  • Have you seen the Liver King on Instagram, dude?

  • Hm, everything you need to know is on my Instagram.

  • Yeah, I follow the resort on Instagram.

  • Their most popular social media platforms are Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest.

    Academic text (2018)

Synonyms

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vsInstagram
  • Texting
31 4.2

A website where people make blogs to share pictures, text, and videos

focuses on mobile photo and video sharing rather than long blog posts

Surface Forms

Instagram main

Morphology

Instagram = instant + gram (semi-transparent) = insta + gram

Form suggests a creative coinage echoing 'instant' + '-gram', but the brand meaning (a social photo-sharing service) is a creative name and not fully predictable from those parts.

Etymology

Instagram is a made-up name that mixes instant ('quick') and -gram (like in telegram, 'message'), so it was created for quick photo messages and is now the name of the popular photo-sharing app.