headphone
Americannoun
-
Audio. a headset designed for use with a stereo system.
-
any set of earphones.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of headphone
Vocabulary lists containing headphone
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
It turned out to be a teaser for an unreleased headphone model nobody knew existed.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
To solve the problem, they created a square-shaped device that could plug into a smartphone’s headphone jack and read credit cards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Simply click the headphone icon — which also shows how long listening to the story will take — and an automated voice will read the article aloud.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025
A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has created a headphone prototype that allows listeners to create just such a "sound bubble."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024
In the headphone study, the editorial had no impact on those whose heads were still.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
For example, it says the facility doesn’t provide headphones for tablets, making private phone calls — including privileged calls with attorneys — impossible unless the detainee can afford to purchase headphones from the commissary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
WSJ | Buy Side: The best tech deals during Amazon Prime Day include headphones, laptops, e-readers and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Sony sent every athlete a free pair of headphones but star players wore Beats on the team bus, in training, through the tunnel... everywhere Fifa could not control.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
To investigate how different brain regions contribute to speech learning, the researchers first altered participants' speech in real time and played the modified speech back through headphones.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
Without my old headphones I feel light, fast.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
