Victrola
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9.3
- noun
- /vɪkˈtroʊlə/
- Archaic
- Gomez winds an old Victrola as he sorts through a pile of 78s.
- Victrola records
Examples
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We turned on the old Victrola and soon the room was filled with the sounds of classical music.
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My dad had a Victrola, an old record player.
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You can get yourself a Victrola like that one.
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You know, every night before bed, we had this old Victrola.
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They've moved the Victrola to our side of the house.
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There's nothing like an old Victrola.
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Nicky's getting me a Victrola.
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There was a windup Victrola and records of operatic arias sung by Caruso and Farrar.
Academic text (1998) -
In 1906, the Victor Talking Machine Company introduced the Victrola, a record player that revolutionized home music.
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My grandparents loved listening to jazz on their vintage Victrola during Sunday gatherings.
Synonyms
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9.2
An old machine that plays music from records using a needle
Surface Forms
Morphology
Victrola = Victor (opaque) = Victor + ola
The word is a trademark formed from the company name plus a commercial naming suffix; the components do not help an average learner infer 'gramophone'.
Etymology
Victrola comes from the company name Victor plus the popular ending -ola that makers used for gadgets in the early 1900s. So a Victrola was originally the 'Victor machine' that played records, and the name later came to mean early gramophones in general.