Gramophone meaning

grăm'ə-fōn'
A record player; a phonograph.
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Old-fashioned term for phonograph.
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An early type of phonograph, esp. one with a large, funnel-shaped acoustic horn.
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(UK, dated) A historic wind-up record player that acoustically reproduces sound from a disk rather than a cylinder record.
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(obsolete) A Grammy.
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Origin of gramophone

  • Originally a trademark
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • 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”).
    From Wiktionary
  • 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.
    From Wiktionary

Gramophone Sentence Examples

  • From 1903 to1910, as gramophone records were beginning to be released, over a third of them were "tango" music.

  • In the decade following the bandoneon's association with tango, recordings by artists who included the bandoneon in their tango music made up almost half of all the releases by the gramophone companies.

  • gramophone record came to an end.

  • All vinyl records whether Historic Masters or not, cannot be played on an old gramophone using thorn, fiber or steel needles.

  • Berliner then might not have been stimulated in 1888 to invent the gramophone.

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