Meanings
nounmicrophone (plural microphones)
plural microphones · alternative 🎙 · alternative 🎙️ · alternative 🎤
- A device (transducer) used to convert sound waves into a varying electric current; normally fed into an amplifier and either recorded or transmitted over radio.
Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family.
1965, Charles McDowell, Campaign Fever: The National Folk Festival, from New Hampshire to November, 1964, Morrow, page 111 more example
It rained hard through most of Roosevelt's Second Inaugural. Audio tape recordings of the speech feature the tattoo of the rain on Roosevelt's microphone[…]
1994, High Definition Television: An Annotated Multidisciplinary Bibliography, 1981-1992, page 112 - obsoleteA speaking trumpet or hearing trumpet; an acoustic device to concentrate or amplify sound.
verbmicrophone (third-person singular simple present microphones, present participle microphoning, simple past and past participle microphoned)
present singular third person microphones · participle present microphoning · participle past microphoned · past microphoned
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA device (transducer) used to convert sound waves into a varying electric current; normally fed into an amplifier and either recorded or transmitted over radio.
More synonyms by meaning
noundevice for converting sound waves into electrical energy
Broader
electro-acoustic transducer
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Afrikaans mikrofoon
- mikrofoontransducer of sound waves to electricity
Arabic مِيكْرُوفُون, مَيْكْرُوفُون
- مِيكْرُوفُون (mikrufūn)transducer of sound waves to electricity
- مَيْكْرُوفُون (maykrufūn)transducer of sound waves to electricity
- مِذْيَاع (miḏyāʕ)transducer of sound waves to electricity
Basque mikrofono
- mikrofonotransducer of sound waves to electricity
Bengali মাইক্রোফোন
- মাইক্রোফোন (maikrōphōn)transducer of sound waves to electricity
Bulgarian микрофо́н
- микрофо́н (mikrofón)transducer of sound waves to electricity
Catalan micròfon
- micròfontransducer of sound waves to electricity
Chinese Cantonese 咪高峯, 咪高峰
- 咪高峯 (mai¹ gou¹ fung¹)transducer of sound waves to electricity
- 咪高峰 (mai¹ gou¹ fung¹)transducer of sound waves to electricity
- 傳聲器 /传声器 (cyun⁴ sing¹ hei³)transducer of sound waves to electricity
- 咪 (mai¹)transducer of sound waves to electricity
- 咪頭 /咪头transducer of sound waves to electricity
Chinese Mandarin 麥克風 /麦克风, 話筒 /话筒
- 麥克風 /麦克风 (màikèfēng)transducer of sound waves to electricity
- 話筒 /话筒 (huàtǒng)transducer of sound waves to electricity
- 傳聲器 /传声器 (chuánshēngqì)transducer of sound waves to electricity
- 微音器 (wéiyīnqì, wēiyīnqì)transducer of sound waves to electricity
Czech mikrofon
- mikrofontransducer of sound waves to electricity
Danish mikrofon
- mikrofontransducer of sound waves to electricity
Dutch microfoon
- microfoontransducer of sound waves to electricity
Esperanto mikrofono
- mikrofonotransducer of sound waves to electricity
Estonian mikrofon
- mikrofontransducer of sound waves to electricity
Finnish mikrofoni, mikki
- mikrofonitransducer of sound waves to electricity
- mikkitransducer of sound waves to electricity
French microphone
- microphonetransducer of sound waves to electricity
German Mikrofon
- Mikrofontransducer of sound waves to electricity
Greek μικρόφωνο
- μικρόφωνο (mikrófono)transducer of sound waves to electricity
Hebrew מִיקְרוֹפוֹן
- מִיקְרוֹפוֹן (mikrofón)transducer of sound waves to electricity
Hindi अणुभाष, माइक्रोफ़ोन
- अणुभाष (aṇubhāṣ)transducer of sound waves to electricity
- माइक्रोफ़ोन (māikrofon)transducer of sound waves to electricity
- माइक (māik)transducer of sound waves to electricity
Hungarian mikrofon
- mikrofontransducer of sound waves to electricity
Icelandic hljóðnemi, míkrófónn
- hljóðnemitransducer of sound waves to electricity
- míkrófónntransducer of sound waves to electricity
- mæktransducer of sound waves to electricity
Indonesian mikrofon, pelantang
- mikrofontransducer of sound waves to electricity
- pelantangtransducer of sound waves to electricity
Irish micreafón
- micreafóntransducer of sound waves to electricity
Italian microfono
- microfonotransducer of sound waves to electricity
Japanese マイクロフォン, マイク
- マイクロフォン (maikurofon)transducer of sound waves to electricity
- マイク (maiku)transducer of sound waves to electricity
Korean 마이크로폰, 마이크
- 마이크로폰 (maikeuropon)transducer of sound waves to electricity
- 마이크 (maikeu)transducer of sound waves to electricity
Latvian mikrofons
- mikrofonstransducer of sound waves to electricity
Lithuanian mikrofonas
- mikrofonastransducer of sound waves to electricity
Malay mikrofon
- mikrofontransducer of sound waves to electricity
Māori hopuoro
- hopuorotransducer of sound waves to electricity
Norwegian Bokmål mikrofon
- mikrofontransducer of sound waves to electricity
Polish mikrofon
- mikrofontransducer of sound waves to electricity
Portuguese microfone
- microfonetransducer of sound waves to electricity
Romanian microfon
- microfontransducer of sound waves to electricity
Russian микрофо́н
- микрофо́н (mikrofón)transducer of sound waves to electricity
Scottish Gaelic microfòn, togair-fuaime
- microfòntransducer of sound waves to electricity
- togair-fuaimetransducer of sound waves to electricity
Slovak mikrofón
- mikrofóntransducer of sound waves to electricity
Spanish micrófono, microfonear
- micrófonotransducer of sound waves to electricity
- microfonearto put one or more microphones on or in.
- microfonarto put one or more microphones on or in.
Swahili kinasa sauti, mikrofoni
- kinasa sautitransducer of sound waves to electricity
- mikrofonitransducer of sound waves to electricity
Swedish mikrofon
- mikrofontransducer of sound waves to electricity
Tagalog miktinig
- miktinigtransducer of sound waves to electricity
Tamil ஒலிவாங்கி
- ஒலிவாங்கி (olivāṅki)transducer of sound waves to electricity
Thai ไมโครโฟน
- ไมโครโฟน (mai-kroo-foon)transducer of sound waves to electricity
Turkish mikrofon
- mikrofontransducer of sound waves to electricity
Ukrainian мікрофо́н
- мікрофо́н (mikrofón)transducer of sound waves to electricity
Urdu مائِکْرو فون, مائِکْروفون
- مائِکْرو فون (māikro fon)transducer of sound waves to electricity
- مائِکْروفون (māikrofon)transducer of sound waves to electricity
Vietnamese máy vi âm, micrô
- máy vi âmtransducer of sound waves to electricity
- micrôtransducer of sound waves to electricity
- mi-crôtransducer of sound waves to electricity
- ống thu thanhtransducer of sound waves to electricity
Yiddish מיקראָפֿאָן
- מיקראָפֿאָן (mikrofon)transducer of sound waves to electricity
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Cite this entry
APA
microphone. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microphone
MLA
“microphone.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microphone. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “microphone,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microphone.
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