Gramophone is an English word with synonyms like phonograph. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Gramophone meaning
A record player.
Synonyms of Gramophone
Using Gramophone
- The main meaning on this page is: A record player.
- Useful related words include: acoustic gramophone, record player, phonograph.
- In the example corpus, gramophone often appears in combinations such as: the gramophone, gramophone records, gramophone company.
Context around Gramophone
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gramophone
- In this selection, "gramophone" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, golden, mail, hereafter, records, company and music stand out and add context to how "gramophone" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a golden gramophone for best and activate the gramophone to hear. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gramophone" sits close to words such as abbe, abdollahian and abergavenny, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gramophone
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In 1937, Hemanta cut his first gramophone disc under the Columbia label. (12 words)
Elgar has been described as the first composer to take the gramophone seriously. (13 words)
His " gramophone record " was the first disc record to be offered to the public. (14 words)
In Blackadder Goes Forth a recording of "A Wand'ring Minstrel I" is played on a gramophone at the beginning of the first episode, and a snatch of the song is also sung by Captain Blackadder in the episode involving "Speckled Jim". (42 words)
Greenfield, Edward, "Session report – New from Elgar", Gramophone, March 2005, p. 16 Reputation Views of Elgar's stature have varied in the decades since his music came to prominence at the beginning of the twentieth century. (36 words)
A brave Scotland Yard inspector ( Graham Chapman ) attempts to retrieve the joke, with the playing of very sombre music on gramophone records and the chanting of laments by fellow policemen to create a depressing mood. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
The asking prices are not cheap: 200 euros for old typewriters, 300 euros for a gramophone.
Taking to the podium upon winning his first golden gramophone of the evening, he passionately spoke about what it meant to him and other creatives.
Various sketches adorn the room, and players can activate the gramophone to hear the clock chime.
He's written on architecture and the arts for Dwell, Maclean's, the Globe and Mail, Gramophone and Eater.
Afterwards, Princess Margaret would play the piano and we'd all sing. If we were feeling particularly merry, we'd dance to gramophone music on the carpet.
Initially, he didn’t believe Litvinenko had been poisoned, but during one call, Litvinenko’s voice faltered “like a gramophone”, he says, and the mobile tumbled from his grasp.
Refreshments will be served and Henderson will be playing some old time tunes from the First World War era on his grandmother’s gramophone.
The North Carolina native went on to record five more studio albums and racked up 12 total Grammy nominations, eventually taking home a golden gramophone for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance in 2011.
The video begins with Modi addressing BJP workers and saying, “There used to be gramophone records earlier.
A brave Scotland Yard inspector ( Graham Chapman ) attempts to retrieve the joke, with the playing of very sombre music on gramophone records and the chanting of laments by fellow policemen to create a depressing mood.
A review in Gramophone highlights how the newly added monologue "helps to give a weighty focus to Act 3, otherwise a phenomenal feat of reconstruction on Glazunov's part, but somehow insubstantial".
At a time when gramophone records were recorded in one take, it allowed recordings to be made in multiple parts, which were then mixed and edited with tolerable loss in quality.
Elgar has been described as the first composer to take the gramophone seriously.
Farach-Colton, Andrew, "Vision of the Hereafter," Gramophone, February 2003, p. 39 Similarly, in the concert hall, Elgar's works, after a period of neglect, are once again frequently programmed.
Greenfield, Edward, "Session report – New from Elgar", Gramophone, March 2005, p. 16 Reputation Views of Elgar's stature have varied in the decades since his music came to prominence at the beginning of the twentieth century.
His " gramophone record " was the first disc record to be offered to the public.
In 1937, Hemanta cut his first gramophone disc under the Columbia label.
In 1961, for commemorating Rabindranath Tagore 's birth centenary, Gramophone company of India featured Rabindrasangeet by Hemanta in a large portion of its commemorative output.
In 1984, Hemanta was felicitated by different organizations, most notably by the Gramophone Company of India, for completing 50 years in music.
In Blackadder Goes Forth a recording of "A Wand'ring Minstrel I" is played on a gramophone at the beginning of the first episode, and a snatch of the song is also sung by Captain Blackadder in the episode involving "Speckled Jim".
Common combinations with gramophone
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the gramophone 5×
- gramophone records 5×
- gramophone company 5×
- gramophone and 3×
- on gramophone 3×
- golden gramophone 2×
- gramophone as 2×
- and gramophone 2×
- phonograph gramophone 2×