phonograph
14
8.8
- noun
- /ˈfoʊnəˌɡræf/
- Archaic
:
fonógrafo
- Already in the 1910s, students listened to works of poetry on phonograph records.
- phonograph record
- phonograph recording
- radio-phonograph
Here's the one for his famous phonograph.
- Here's the one for his famous phonograph.
- I think that putting phonograph records on the Voyager was genius.
- You can talk between continents or, you know, later on we have the the Telegraph and that not the just the Telegraph, the phonograph.
Examples
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The vintage phonograph filled the room with beautiful music from the past.
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I used to sit in my room and listen to phonograph records hour after hour.
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It's playing on an old phonograph.
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Seems to me I had a portable phonograph from my freshman days.
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Without the phonograph, we wouldn't have any of that other stuff.
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She sits and plays those old phonograph records.
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Next to Mr. Gumb is an antique phonograph, the source of the music.
Fiction book (1991) -
I put a record on the phonograph and, as always, I comfortably settle into my armchair.
Academic text (2007) -
A song plays on the old phonograph as a happy Larch and Angela dance.
Fiction book (1999) -
Faintly, from another room in the house, we can hear a phonograph playing John McCormack singing "Danny Boy."
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
18
3.0
A machine that plays music from vinyl discs using a needle
8
9.2
An old machine that plays music from records using a needle
1
9.9
An early machine that records and plays back sound
An old record player with a large horn that makes sound without electricity
A machine that has a radio and a record player in one box
Compounds
- Archaic
1
6.6
A flat round disc with a groove that stores music and is played on a turntable
- Archaic
A flat disk with a long groove that makes sound when a needle moves
- Archaic
A flat disk used to make and play sound on an old record player
How Old
- Archaic
8
9.2
- Archaic
14
8.8
18
3.0
42
1.5
175
1.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Phonograph comes from Greek parts phone ('sound') and graph ('write'), so it literally means 'sound writing'. A phonograph is a machine that 'writes' or records sound and then plays it back.