gramophone - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
Noun
gramophone (plural gramophones)
- (UK, dated) A record player.
Etymology
From the trademark Gramophone, coined by German-American inventor Emile Berliner in 1887 after the invention of the first phonograph, from Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma, “letter”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: grămʹ-ə-fōn’
- (UK) IPA: [ˈɡɹæ.məˌfəʊn]
- (US) IPA: [ˈɡɹæ.məˌfoʊn]
- Audio (US): 🔊
- Rhymes: -æməfəʊn
- Hyphenation: gra‧mo‧phone
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