noun

xylophone

ZEYE-luh-fohn

noun

A percussion instrument made of wooden bars of different lengths, played by striking them with small mallets.

"The music teacher handed each child a mallet and let them try the xylophone."

How to Use Xylophone

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishA tuned wooden percussion instrument that produces different notes depending on which bar you hit.

Easily confused with

marimba glockenspiel

xylophoned past tense, xylophones plural, xylophones singular

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The music teacher handed each child a mallet and let them try the _____.

From Greek xylo-, "wood," and -phone, "sound" — literally "wood sound."

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