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accordions

accordions is the plural of accordion.

accordions is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

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Phrases with accordions

Questions about accordions

What is accordions the plural of?
Accordions is the plural of accordion.

Words near accordions in the dictionary

  1. accordionesque
  2. accordioning
  3. accordionist
  4. accordionists
  5. accordionlike
  6. accordions
  7. accordment
  8. accordments
  9. accords
  10. accordyng
  11. accorgan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: accordions (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.

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