gramophone

noun

gram·​o·​phone ˈgra-mə-ˌfōn How to pronounce gramophone (audio)

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Soldiers are drunk, women are topless, music is blaring out of a gramophone. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026 Which was why, at the very end, when Gordon tuned in on the wireless to a dance band and Robert was supposed to waltz Olwyn about the room, Stella had no patience with St Ives’s reaction to Geoffrey’s ten-second delay in putting on the gramophone record. Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026 My Proustian trigger was a portable gramophone designed by Mario Bellini for the Italian company Minerva. Justin Davidson, Curbed, 26 Feb. 2026 Victoria won three Grammys at the 2024 awards ceremony — Best New Artist, Best R&B Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical — but sadly, the category Hazel was in didn't earn the mother-daughter duo a golden gramophone. Diana Pearl, PEOPLE, 1 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for gramophone

Word History

Etymology

from Gramophone, a trademark

First Known Use

1887, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of gramophone was in 1887

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“Gramophone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gramophone. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.

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