xylophone
pronunciation
How to pronounce xylophone in British English:
UK [ˈzaɪləfəʊn]
How to pronounce xylophone in American English:
US [ˈzaɪləfoʊn]
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- Noun:
- a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets
Word Origin
- xylophone
- xylophone: [19] Etymologically, a xylophone makes ‘sounds’ from ‘wood’. The term was coined in the 1860s from Greek xúlon ‘wood’ (an allusion to the instrument’s tuned wooden bars) and the combining form -phone ‘sound’.
- xylophone (n.)
- 1866, coined from Greek xylon "wood" (see xylo-) + phone "a sound," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say" (see fame (n.)).
Example
- 1. Our band needs someone who can play the xylophone .
- 2. The guitar is equipped with xylophone alder , maple or rosewood fingerboard .
- 3. Sometimes he brings a toy xylophone .
- 4. Press keys for piano play or strike them with mallet for xylophone .
- 5. The length of the bars of the xylophone determines the different notes of the scale .