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Definition of gramophone noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

gramophone

noun
 
/ˈɡræməfəʊn/
 
/ˈɡræməfəʊn/
(old-fashioned)
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  1. a piece of equipment for playing records in order to listen to the music, etc. on them synonym record player
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryGramophone is used before these nouns:
    • record
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    Word Originlate 19th cent.: formed by inversion of elements of phonogram ‘sound recording’.
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