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xylophone
[ zahy-luh-fohn ]
noun
- a musical instrument consisting of a graduated series of wooden bars, usually sounded by striking with small wooden hammers.
xylophone
/ ˈzaɪləˌfəʊn; ˌzaɪləˈfɒnɪk; zaɪˈlɒfənɪst /
noun
- music a percussion instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars of graduated length. It is played with hard-headed hammers
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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
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Word History and Origins
Origin of xylophone1
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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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