sound box

noun

1

: a hollow chamber in a musical instrument for increasing its sonority

2

: a device in an early phonograph for producing sound from a record by using the vibration of a needle to move a diaphragm

Examples of sound box in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The sound box had a teardrop shape, just a couple of inches deep, with a golden-brown polyurethane finish that darkened to black at the edges. — Tim Parks, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2026

Modern readers are more intelligent, but just for the stragglers, a zither is a flat, stringed instrument, like a guitar with a shallower sound box and no neck. — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2022

Come Tuesday night, United Supermarkets Arena will be an ear-splitting sound box filled with vengeance-seeking Red Raiders fans. — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Jan. 2022

The sound waves get trapped in what is something like a giant sound box, reflecting and amplifying the sound of the tumbling grains of sand. — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2021

In rhapsodic words attributed to the 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic Rumi on the metaphysical benefits of self-denial, If the sound box is stuffed full of anything, no music. — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2020

The sound box of the instrument was incrusted with carnelian, lapis lazuli, and mother-of-pearl. — National Geographic, 22 May 2019

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1875, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for sound box

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