gramophone
Meaning
A record player.
Synonyms
acoustic gramophone
talking machine
cylinder phonograph
record-player
electrola
music disc
sound player
disk reproducer
electric phonograph
gramophone record
Translations
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
[ˈɡɹæ.məˌfəʊn]
Etymology
From the trademark Gramophone, coined by German-American inventor Emile Berliner in 1887 after the invention of the first phonograph, from Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma, “letter”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).
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