accordion

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.3.4 See also 1.4 Adjective 1.5 Verb

[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

From mid nineteenth-century German Akkordion based on Italian accordare (“‘to tune’”). See also accord.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /əˈkɔ(ɹ).di.ˌən/
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• Hyphenation: ac‧cord‧i‧on

[edit] Noun

accordion (plural accordions)

1. A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.
   • 1869, Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad:

     A disreputable accordion that had a leak somewhere and breathed louder than it squawked.

   • Ambrose Bierce, Devil’s Dictionary:

     Accordion: an instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

[edit] Synonyms

• squeezebox

[edit] Derived terms

• accordionist

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[edit] See also

• bandoneon
• concertina

[edit] Adjective

accordion (not comparable)

1. Pleated.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     An accordion underskirt of blue silk moirette.

[edit] Verb

to accordion (third-person singular simple present accordions, present participle accordioning, simple past and past participle accordioned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To fold up, in the manner of an accordion
   • 2000 December 29, Charles Dickinson, “Qi”, Chicago Reader:

     Still in reverse, she goosed the gas and accordioned the running board a fraction of an inch more.

   • 2005, Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town^[1]:

     It accordioned down and he tugged the shirt around it so that it came free […] .