Meanings
plural phonographs
- CanadaUShistoricalA record player.
[…]I've knew people that if they got a rag rug on the floor and a kewpie doll lamp on the phonograph they think they're runnin' a parlor house.'
1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, Covici FriedeSynonyms: gramophone, record player
- datedA character or symbol used to represent a sound, especially one used in phonography.
present singular third person phonographs · participle present phonographing · participle past phonographed · past phonographed
- datedtransitiveTo record for playback by phonograph.
- datedtransitiveTo transcribe into phonographic symbols.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA device that records or plays sound from cylinder records.
nounA record player.
More synonyms by meaning
nounmachine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian фонограф
- фонограф (fonograf)device that records or plays sound from cylinder records
Catalan fonògraf
- fonògrafdevice that records or plays sound from cylinder records
Czech fonograf
- fonografdevice that records or plays sound from cylinder records
Danish fonograf
- fonografdevice that records or plays sound from cylinder records
Esperanto fonografo
- fonografodevice that records or plays sound from cylinder records
Finnish fonografi
- fonografidevice that records or plays sound from cylinder records
German Phonograph
- Phonographdevice that records or plays sound from cylinder records
Greek φωνογράφος
- φωνογράφος (fonográfos)device that records or plays sound from cylinder records
Hawaiian pahu ʻōlelo
- pahu ʻōlelodevice that records or plays sound from cylinder records
Italian fonografo
- fonografodevice that records or plays sound from cylinder records
Japanese 蓄音機
- 蓄音機 (chikuonki)device that records or plays sound from cylinder records
Polish fonograf, adapter
- fonografdevice that records or plays sound from cylinder records
- adapterdevice that records or plays sound from cylinder records
- nagrywać fonografemto record for playback
- nagrać fonografemto record for playback
Portuguese fonógrafo
- fonógrafodevice that records or plays sound from cylinder records
Russian фоно́граф, фонографировать
- фоно́граф (fonógraf)device that records or plays sound from cylinder records
- фонографировать (fonografirovatʹ)to record for playback
Spanish fonógrafo
- fonógrafodevice that records or plays sound from cylinder records
Cite this entry
phonograph. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/phonograph
“phonograph.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/phonograph. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “phonograph,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/phonograph.
Source: phonograph on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.