Steinway

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noun

A piano made by Steinway & Sons, a German-American piano company founded in 1853 in New York City by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg.

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Meanings

nounSteinway (plural Steinways)

plural Steinways

  1. A piano made by Steinway & Sons, a German-American piano company founded in 1853 in New York City by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg.

    After supper — which is a lengthy, spoon-fed, dribblesome business — he likes to play Schubert or Brahms on the Steinway in the conservatory.

    1992, Chris Wilson, Fou, page 177

Origin

From the surname of the piano maker, a German immigrant to Manhattan whose original surname was Steinweg.

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Steinway. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Steinway

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