xylophone
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xylophone
- /ˈzaɪ.ləˌfəʊn/ UK
- /ˈzaɪləˌfoʊn/ US
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From xylo- (“of wood”) + -phone (“sound”).
noun xylophones
- Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives. All I know how to play on my xylophone is "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Would you like to hear it?
verb xylophones · xylophoning · xylophoned
- To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.
- To move above a ridged surface or series of surfaces so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone. my eager fingers xylophoning over the memories
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noun musical instrument
| Español | xilófono, marimba |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 실로폰 sillopon |
| 日本語 | 木琴 mokkin, シロフォン shirofon |
| 中文 | 木琴 mùqín |
| Kiswahili | marimba ya kizungu |
| Português | xilofone |
| Français | xylophone |
| Deutsch | Xylophon |
| Italiano | xilofono |
| Ελληνικά | ξυλόφωνο xylófono |
| Română | xilofon |
| Русский | ксилофо́н ksilofón |
| Tiếng Việt | mộc cầm |
| العربية | سِيلُوفُون sīlūfūn |
| עברית | קסילופון ksilofón |
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@misc{xylophone_2026,
title = {xylophone},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/xylophone},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
