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xylophone
English
Etymology
From xylo- (“of wood”) +? -phone (“sound”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: z??l?-f?n', IPA(key): /?za?.l?.?f??n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?za?l??fo?n/
- Hyphenation: xy?lo?phone
Noun
xylophone (plural xylophones)
- (music) Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- glockenspiel
- marimba
- vibraphone
References
- Vienna Symphony Orchestra. "Xylophone".
Verb
xylophone (third-person singular simple present xylophones, present participle xylophoning, simple past and past participle xylophoned)
- To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.
- To move above a ridged surface so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.
Anagrams
- oxyphenol
French
Etymology
From xylo- +? -phone.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?zi.l?.f?n/, /ksi.l?.f?n/
Noun
xylophone m (plural xylophones)
- xylophone
Descendants
- ? Russian: ????????? (ksilofón) (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “xylophone” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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