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xylophone

[ zahy-luh-fohn ]

noun

  1. a musical instrument consisting of a graduated series of wooden bars, usually sounded by striking with small wooden hammers.


xylophone

/ ˈzaɪləˌfəʊn; ˌzaɪləˈfɒnɪk; zaɪˈlɒfənɪst /

noun

  1. music a percussion instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars of graduated length. It is played with hard-headed hammers
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • xylophonist, noun
  • xylophonic, adjective
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Other Words From

  • xy·lo·phon·ic [zahy-l, uh, -, fon, -ik], adjective
  • xy·lo·phon·ist [zahy, -l, uh, -foh-nist, zahy-, lof, -, uh, -nist, zi-], noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of xylophone1

First recorded in 1865–70; xylo- + -phone
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Word History and Origins

Origin of xylophone1

C19: from xylo- + -phone
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Example Sentences

By year three, she writes, her students are practicing self-control using a xylophone and trying to be attentive to musical cues.

As a cursor pans from left to right across the image of the galactic center, showing a 400-light-year expanse, Chandra X-ray observations, played on the xylophone, trace filaments of superhot gas.

I later learned to play the xylophone, the violin and the saxophone.

After much thought and reflection, I have decided to pursue my first loves--modern dance and the xylophone.

My ribs are like a xylophone, and the knobs of my spine stick up like ponderous cairns in the landscape of my back.

It thrashed its bony arms impatiently and its ribs rattled like a xylophone.

So they began to cuss, amiable, and throw down dollars on the bar till it sounded like a selection on the xylophone.

The neighbouring forest was soon echoing the strident notes of xylophone, banjo, ocarina and trombone.

A very good idea of the psaltery and dulcimer may be obtained from the xylophone.

Saint-Saëns has even utilized the barbarous xylophone, whose proper place is the variety hall, in his "Danse Macabre."

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