clock radio
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- noun
- /klɑk ˈreɪdioʊ/
:
radio despertador
- Molly reaches over and turns on the clock radio.
- clock radio alarm
- clock radio on her nightstand
- digital clock radio
Anyway, I, you know, it's a clock radio.
- Anyway, I, you know, it's a clock radio.
- So here you see me fixing a drop damage DAB clock radio.
Examples
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The clock radio on the nightstand automatically turns on at 7 AM.
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Burnett and his young wife, Theresa, are jarred awake by the clock radio blaring on the nightstand.
Fiction book (1995) -
Reaching for it, she saw the time on the clock radio.
Fiction book (1991) -
Phil hits the clock radio to turn it off.
Fiction book (1993) -
"Are you still here?" she says, picking up her clock radio to study its dial.
Fiction book (1992) -
When our eyes got used to the darkness, we could make out a lamp and a clock radio.
Fiction book (1991) -
And if your clock radio is set to go off at 7:18, it should be doing that right about now.
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Jesus, what time is it?" The blue digits of his clock radio read 11:08.
Fiction book (1998) -
The room is dark, except for the illuminated numbers on the clock radio beside the bed.
Fiction book (1996) -
Sonny awoke as the music blared from her clock radio.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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A clock that wakes you at a set time by making a sound
How Automatic
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: combining 'clock' (timekeeping device) with 'radio' yields a radio that includes a clock/alarm function. This simple noun–noun compound follows productive English compounding and similar forms exist cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Clock radio comes from joining a clock and a radio into one machine. The clock can be set to turn the radio on at a chosen time, so the device became a common way to 'wake up' to music or news.