Meanings
nounheadphone (plural headphones)
plural headphones
- plural normallysingularsingular of headphones: a cushioned speaker placed on, over, or inside the ear, normally used in left and right pairs.
Some joggers wear only one headphone in their ears, to enjoy music while paying attention to their environment.
1 more example
From "Little" Louie Vega, David Camacho, and Tyrone Francis I learned about seamless beatmixing, using a so-called lollipop headphone for one ear and a monitor speaker for the other.
2017, Mark J. Butler, Electronica, Dance and Club Music
Synonyms & antonyms
nounelectro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear
Broader
electro-acoustic transducer
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*kap-?
- Proto-Indo-European*kap-
- Proto-Indo-European*káput
- Proto-Germanic*haubudą
- Old Englishhēafod
- Middle Englishheed
- Englishhead
- Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-
- Ancient Greekτῆλε (têle)
- Frenchtélé-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
- Proto-Hellenic*pʰōnā́
- Ancient Greekφωνή (phōnḗ)
- Frenchtéléphone
- Englishtelephoneclip.
- Englishphone
- Englishheadphone
Translations
Arabic سَمَّاعَة, سَمَاعَات رَأْس
- سَمَّاعَة (sammāʕa)listening device
- سَمَاعَات رَأْس (samāʕāt raʔs)listening device
- سَمَاعَات الرَّأْس (samāʕāt ar-raʔs)listening device
- أُرْصُوصَة (ʔurṣūṣa)listening device
- أَرَاصِيص (ʔarāṣīṣ)listening device
Bengali হেডফোন
- হেডফোন (heḍophōn)listening device
Bulgarian слу́шалки
- слу́шалки (slúšalki)listening device
Catalan auricular
- auricularlistening device
Chinese Cantonese 耳機 /耳机, 耳筒
- 耳機 /耳机 (ji⁵ gei¹)listening device
- 耳筒listening device
Chinese Mandarin 耳機 /耳机, 耳筒
- 耳機 /耳机 (ěrjī)listening device
- 耳筒 (ěrtǒng)listening device
Czech sluchátka
- sluchátkalistening device
Danish hovedtelefon
- hovedtelefonlistening device
Dutch hoofdtelefoon, koptelefoon
- hoofdtelefoonlistening device
- koptelefoonlistening device
Esperanto kapaŭskultilo
- kapaŭskultilolistening device
Estonian kõrvaklapid
- kõrvaklapidlistening device
Finnish kuulokkeet
- kuulokkeetlistening device
French écouteur, casque
- écouteurlistening device
- casquelistening device
- casque audiolistening device
German Kopfhörer
- Kopfhörerlistening device
Greek ακουστικό, ακουστικά
- ακουστικό (akoustikó)listening device
- ακουστικά (akoustiká)listening device
Hebrew אָזְנִית, אוזניות
- אָזְנִיתlistening device
- אוזניות (oznít)listening device
Hindi हेडफ़ोन, हेड फ़ोन्स
- हेडफ़ोन (heḍfon)listening device
- हेड फ़ोन्स (heḍ fons)listening device
Hungarian fejhallgató
- fejhallgatólistening device
Icelandic heyrnartól
- heyrnartóllistening device
Indonesian penyuara kuping, penyuara jemala
- penyuara kupinglistening device
- penyuara jemalalistening device
Irish cluasán
- cluasánlistening device
Italian auricolari, cuffie
- auricolarilistening device
- cuffielistening device
Japanese ヘッドフォン, ヘッドホン
- ヘッドフォン (heddofon)listening device
- ヘッドホン (heddohon)listening device
Korean 헤드폰
- 헤드폰 (hedeupon)listening device
Latin auscultābulum, concha auditoria
- auscultābulumlistening device
- concha auditorialistening device
Latvian austiņas
- austiņaslistening device
Lithuanian ausinės
- ausinėslistening device
Malay fon kepala
- fon kepalalistening device
Māori pokitaringa
- pokitaringalistening device
Norwegian Bokmål hodetelefoner
- hodetelefonerlistening device
Polish słuchawki
- słuchawkilistening device
Portuguese fone de cabeça
- fone de cabeçalistening device
Romanian căști, căști audio
- căștilistening device
- căști audiolistening device
- căști auricularelistening device
- cascălistening device
Russian нау́шники
- нау́шники (naúšniki)listening device
Scottish Gaelic fòn-cluaise
- fòn-cluaiselistening device
Slovak slúchadlá
- slúchadlálistening device
Spanish auricular, audífono
- auricularlistening device
- audífonolistening device
- cascoslistening device
- audífono circumaurallistening device
- audífono supraaurallistening device
- circumauricularlistening device
- supraauricularlistening device
Swedish hörlur, hörlurar
- hörlurlistening device
- hörlurarlistening device
Tamil ஹெட்ஃபோன், காதொலிப்பான்
- ஹெட்ஃபோன் (heṭfōṉ)listening device
- காதொலிப்பான் (kātolippāṉ)listening device
Thai หูฟัง
- หูฟัง (hǔu-fang)listening device
Turkish kulaklık
- kulaklıklistening device
Ukrainian наву́шники
- наву́шники (navúšnyky)listening device
Urdu ہیڈ فون, ہیڈ فونْز
- ہیڈ فون (heḍ fon)listening device
- ہیڈ فونْز (heḍ fonz)listening device
Vietnamese ống nghe, tai nghe
- ống nghelistening device
- tai nghelistening device
Welsh clustffon
- clustffonlistening device
Cite this entry
APA
headphone. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/headphone
MLA
“headphone.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/headphone. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “headphone,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/headphone.
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