word of the day cassette Photography: Daniel Schludi@schluditsch Well, I seriously can't believe I need to put this up as a word of the day, but some younger generations have no idea what a cassette is. Yeah, depressing. Well, cheers to our old friend the cassette tape. You were our best friend, solace,and ally for many years. We loved you for making mixed tapes, we fixed you with the turn of a pencil, and if you could afford Maxwell Gold, you were bad, like in really good. cas·sette /kəˈset/ Learn to pronounce noun noun: cassette ; plural noun: cassettes a sealed plastic unit containing a length of audiotape, videotape, film, etc. wound on a pair of spools, for insertion into a recorder or playback device. Origin late 18th century: from French, diminutive of casse Google Dictionary