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phonograph

/ˈfəʊnəˌɡɹɑːf/US/ˈfoʊnəˌɡɹæf/

phonograph noun: a device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe.

Noun

phonograph (plural phonographs)

  1. A device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe.
  2. (UK, historical) A device that records or plays sound from cylinder records.
    Synonyms:
    talking phonograph
  3. (Canada, US, historical) A record player.
    • […]I've knew people that if they got a rag rug on the floor and a kewpie doll lamp on the phonograph they think they're runnin' a parlor house.'1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, Covici Friede
  4. (dated) A character or symbol used to represent a sound, especially one used in phonography.

Verb

phonograph (third-person singular simple present phonographs, present participle phonographing, simple past and past participle phonographed)

  1. (dated, transitive) To record for playback by phonograph.
  2. (dated, transitive) To transcribe into phonographic symbols.

phonograph meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam and Kannada

phonograph in Tamil

ஒலிவரைவி

phonograph in Marathi

device that records or plays sound from cylinder records
फोनोग्राफ phonogrāph

phonograph in Malayalam

സ്വനഗ്രാഹി, ലേഖാക്ഷരം, സൂത്രാക്ഷരം, സ്വരലേഖനയന്ത്രം

phonograph in Kannada

ಉಲಿಯಚ್ಚುಕ
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phonograph in Gujarati
ફોનોગ્રાફ phonogrāph

Examples of phonograph in a sentence

  • Ziggy bought some diamond needles for his hi-fi phonograph.
  • Thomas Edison was the inventor of the phonograph.
  • His greatest success has been with the “juke boxes”, the nickel-in-a-slot automatic phonographs.

All 11 example sentences with phonograph

Synonyms of phonograph

Forms of phonograph

Noun
pluralphonographs
Verb
third-person singular presentphonographs
present participlephonographing
past participlephonographed
pastphonographed

Plural of phonograph: phonographs

Origin of phonograph

From phono- + -graph.

Words formed from phonograph

Phrases with phonograph

Questions about phonograph

What does phonograph mean?
Phonograph means a device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe.
What is phonograph in Tamil?
Phonograph in Tamil is ஒலிவரைவி. See Phonograph meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is phonograph?
Phonograph can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce phonograph?
Phonograph is pronounced /ˈfəʊnəˌɡɹɑːf/ (UK).
What is the plural of phonograph?
The plural of phonograph is phonographs.

Words near phonograph in the dictionary

  1. phonogrammatical
  2. phonogramme
  3. phonogrammes
  4. phonogrammic
  5. phonograms
  6. phonograph
  7. phonograph record
  8. phonograph records
  9. phonographed
  10. phonographer
  11. phonographers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: phonograph (page history and authors); phonograph (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); phonograph (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); phonograph (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ફોનોગ્રાફ (Gujarati) (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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