Word.ws English Dictionary

accordeon

accordeon is the obsolete spelling of accordion.

Meaning of accordion

Noun

accordion (plural accordions)

  1. A box-shaped musical instrument played by compressing or expanding its bellows while pressing its buttons or its keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel (reeds).
    • A disreputable accordion that had a leak somewhere and breathed louder than it squawked.1869, Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad
  2. A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents.
  3. (attributive, figuratively) Something, or set of things (concepts, etc), which can be expanded (or extended) and collapsed, like the musical instrument's pleated, folding bellows.
    • See also: telescoping

See all 4 meanings of accordion

Forms of accordeon

pluralaccordeons

Questions about accordeon

What is accordeon the obsolete spelling of?
Accordeon is the obsolete spelling of accordion.

Words near accordeon in the dictionary

  1. accordancies
  2. accordancy
  3. accordant
  4. accordantly
  5. accorded
  6. accordeon
  7. accordeons
  8. accorder
  9. accorders
  10. accordest
  11. accordeth

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: accordeon (page history and authors); accordion (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “accordeon.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/accordeon. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.