an early form of gramophone capable of recording and reproducing sound on wax cylinders - Also called: gramophone, record player
a device for reproducing the sounds stored on a record: now usually applied to the nearly obsolete type that uses a clockwork motor and acoustic horn
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
pho•no•graph /ˈfoʊnəˌgræf/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- Sound Reproductiona machine that reproduces sound using records in the form of grooved disks.
pho•no•graph
(fō′nə graf′, -gräf′),USA pronunciation n.
- Sound Reproductionany sound-reproducing machine using records in the form of cylinders or discs.
- 1825–35 in sense "phonogram''; 1877 for the "talking phonograph'' invented by T. A. Edison; phono- + -graph
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
'phonograph' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
LP
- album
- antistatic
- arm
- band
- biscuit
- box
- by
- cabinet
- cinematheque
- console
- consolette
- crystal pickup
- cut
- demo
- disc
- discography
- discophile
- electrical transcription
- extended play
- flip side
- forty-five
- gain
- goody
- gramophone
- graph
- graphophone
- groove
- hi-fi
- jacket
- jukebox
- label
- land
- linear-tracking
- liner
- long play
- magnetic pickup
- overside
- phono
- phono-
- phonographic
- pickup
- platter
- play
- pocket
- preamplifier
- press
- pressing
- pressing plant
- record