Chiefly Brit. phonograph
Origin of gramophone
so named (1887) by E. Berliner (1851-1929), United States inventor, born in Germany, by arbitrary inversion of phonogramgramophone
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gramophone
noun
A record player; a phonograph.
Origin of gramophone
Originally a trademarkTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural gramophones)
- (UK, dated) A historic wind-up record player that acoustically reproduces sound from a disk rather than a cylinder record.
Origin
From Gramophone (“a trademark”), coined by Emile Berliner after the invention of the first phonograph, from Ancient Greek γράμμα (gramma, “letter”) and φωνή (fone, “sound”).
Noun
- (obsolete) A Grammy.
Origin
Originally the name of a brand of phonograph; coined from Ancient Greek roots by Emile Berliner after the invention of the first phonograph. See gramophone.
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