headphone

American

[hed-fohn] / ˈhɛdˌfoʊn /

noun

Audio. a headset designed for use with a stereo system.
any set of earphones.

Etymology

Origin of headphone

First recorded in 1910–15; head + -phone

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At their debut, they almost singlehandedly inaugurated a shift towards hyper-intimate headphone pop - it’s hard to imagine Billie Eilish sounding quite the same without them.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 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

The team's artificial intelligence algorithms combined with a headphone prototype allow the wearer to hear people speaking within a bubble with a programmable radius of 3 to 6 feet.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024

Koss Corp. a headphone manufacturer, rose more than 14% and BlackBerry, the one time dominant smartphone maker, climbed more than 4%.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024

The jack end of my headphone set had fallen out of my pocket.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

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