noun
phonograph
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noun
1
An early device for recording and playing back sound using grooved cylinders or discs, a forerunner of the record player.
"The museum has a working phonograph from the early 1900s."
How to Use Phonograph
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishAn old-fashioned machine for recording and playing sound, the ancestor of the modern record player.
UK vs US
In American English "phonograph" is the common older term; British English more often used "gramophone" for the same kind of device.
Word Forms
phonographed past tense, phonographs plural, phonographs singular
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Etymology
From Greek phono- ("sound") plus -graph ("something written or recorded").