Meanings
sony1
- alternativeAlternative spelling of sonny.
He often would say, ‘My father will not come from Washington time enough to see his sony.'
1837, Abigail Goodrich Whittelsey, Samuel Whittelsey, The Mother's Magazine, S. Whittelsey
Sony2
- trademarkAn international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan.
he mostly makes videos—virtually reinventing the diary form with his Sony 8 scrapbook.
1993, Martha Gever, Pratibha Parmar, John Greyson, Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video, Routledge, →ISBN, page 764 more examples
Bernstein always understood this symphony, and his Sony recording was for many years one of the best.
2002, Alexander J. Morin, Classical Music: The Listener's Companion, Backbeat Books, →ISBN, page 98Gary’s roster currently has Tritt and two new Sony artists soon to be hugely famous, JEB and Christy Sutherland.
2003, Nadine Condon, Hot Hits, Cheap Demos: The Real-World Guide to Music Business Success, Backbeat Books, →ISBN, page 34Most of the e-mails were blowback from the departure of our divisional vice president, Crawford, who’d just jumped ship to Sony.
2006, Joseph Finder, Killer Instinct, St. Martin's Press,, →ISBN, page 5Jade Raymond, the executive in charge of SG&E who previously worked at Sony (SNE), Electronic Arts (EA) and Ubisoft (UBSFF), will leave Google (GOOG) to “pursue other opportunities,” Harrison added.
2021 February 1, Rishi Iyengar, “Google will stop making video games for its Stadia platform”, in CNN Business
plural Sonys
- A device produced by Sony.
My memoirs. At night I leave a Sony by my bed. Night is the best time for remembering.
1995, Victor J. Ramraj, Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Writing in English, Broadview Press, →ISBN, page 2975 more examples
Connie Chung, the pretty Chinese CBS correspondent, occupied the room next to mine at the Hyatt House and she was always back by midnight, reciting a final sixty-second radio spot into her Sony or absorbing one last press release before getting a good night’s sleep.
1980, Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus, Ballantine Books,, →ISBN, page 16It’s not clear what the witch doctors are doing, but the scientists have been wandering the riverbank with their Sonys or Hitachis, playing the recorded chirpings of newly hatched crocodiles in hopes of either stirring maternal instinct in the (almost surely) female man-eater or tempting her to infanticidal cannibalism, which would be far more likely.
1990, Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in a Lonely Land: More Hunting, Fishing, and Shooting on Five Continents, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 255The common threads that exist between the fisherman and his Sony and the project above. Robert Smithson's 'Incidents of mirror travel in the Yucatan' are important.
1999, Peter Cook, Archigram, Princeton Architectural Press,, →ISBN, page 113My personal choice would be to drag these vultures from their rental cars and gently disassemble their Sonys.
2001, Carl Hiaasen, edited by Diane Stevenson, Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, published 2002, →ISBN, page 18He also figured more and more people got their current events from television, and so he put most of his effort into soliciting the unwashed masses who sat bug-eyed before their Sonys.
2010, Bill Sharpsteen, Dirty Water: One Man’s Fight to Clean Up One of the World’s Most Polluted Bays, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 54
Origin
- Latinsonus“sound”
- EnglishSony
A combination of Latin sonus (“sound”) and sonny (“boy”, diminutive).
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Arabic سُونِي
- سُونِي (sōni)An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
Bengali সনি
- সনি (śoni)An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
Bulgarian Со́ни
- Со́ни (Sóni)An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
Chinese Mandarin 索尼
- 索尼 (Suǒní)An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
Estonian Sony
- SonyAn international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
Finnish Sony
- SonyAn international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
French Sony
- SonyAn international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
German Sony
- Sonydevice produced by Sony
Greek Σόνι
- Σόνι (Sóni)An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
Hebrew סוני
- סוני (soni)An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
Hindi सोनी
- सोनी (sonī)An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
Japanese ソニー
- ソニー (Sonī)An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
Korean 소니
- 소니 (Soni)An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
Persian سونی
- سونی (soni)An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
Polish Sony
- SonyAn international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
Portuguese Sony
- SonyAn international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
Russian Со́ни
- Со́ни (Sóni)An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
Spanish Sony
- SonyAn international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
Thai โซนี่
- โซนี่ (sohnêe)An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
Turkish Sony
- SonyAn international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
Urdu سونی
- سونی (sonī)An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
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sony. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sony
“sony.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sony. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sony,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sony.
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