phonograph

Meaning

Noun

1. A device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe.
2. (British, historical) A device that records or plays sound from cylinder records.
3. (Canada, US, historical) A record player.
4. (dated) A character or symbol used to represent a sound, especially one used in phonography.

Verb

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

Synonyms

record player

gramophone

record-player

cylinder phonograph

talking machine

phonogram

phonographic

pick-up

music

🎶

dictaphone

turntable

victrola

electrola

phono

sound player

electric phonograph

disk reproducer

musical instrument

Translations

phonographe

fonografo

fonógrafo

grammofoon

fonógrafo

fonògraf

fonograaf

gramofone

électrophone

Phonograph

giradischi

φωνογράφος

Tonaufzeichnungsgerät

Grammophon

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfəʊnəˌɡɹɑːf/

Etymology

From phono- + -graph.