Karaoke definitions

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A music entertainment system providing prerecorded accompaniment to popular songs that a performer sings live, usually by following the words on a video screen.
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The performance of such music.
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A form of entertainment in which patrons, as in a bar, take turns singing popular songs into a microphone accompanied by prerecorded music played on a special device, with the lyrics displayed on a screen.
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(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.
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Origin of karaoke

From Japanese カラオケ (karaoke), from 空 (から, kara, “empty”) + オケ (oke, “orchestra”), abbreviation of オーケストラ (ōkesutora), from English orchestra.

Sentence Examples

  • Since your basically doing karaoke, you just have to be able to read the words.

  • I enjoyed the karaoke in the evening even more however.

  • You can even redo karaoke songs you buy that have out-of-sync lyrics.

  • He politely informed my guests that this was a karaoke show for people to listen to only.

  • No, never happened, never did karaoke sober.

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