xylophone
See also: Xylophone
English
Etymology
From xylo- (“of wood”) + -phone (“sound”).
Pronunciation
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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.
- All I know how to play on my xylophone is "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Would you like to hear it?
Derived terms
Translations
musical instrument
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See also
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
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
xylophone m (plural xylophones)
Descendants
Further reading
- “xylophone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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