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Meaning of MTV | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

A television channel that originally showed mostly music videos but now shows a wide variety of content.

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Examples

“I want my, I want my MTV / Now look at them yo-yo's, that's the way you do it / You play the guitar on the MTV / That ain't workin', that's the way you do it / Money for nothin', and chicks for free”
“We won the race, got out of the place / Went back home, got a brand new face for the boys on MTV”
“So the FCC won't let me be / Or let me be me, so let me see / They tried to shut me down on MTV”
“In the amended complaint, Carter is accused of raping the then-13-year-old Jane Doe at an afterparty for the MTV Video Music Awards in the year 2000.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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