Phrase guide

record player

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A device for playing phonograph records.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: gramophone, phonograph, turntable

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: phonograph

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: machine

Narrower terms: gramophone, acoustic gramophone, jukebox, nickelodeon

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

144 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: gramafon — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Arabic: غْرَامَافُون (grāmāfūn) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Arabic: فُونُوغْرَاف (fūnūgrāf) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Arabic: حَاكٍ (ḥākin) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Armenian: գրամոֆոն (gramofon) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Armenian: պատեֆոն (patefon) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Asturian: gramófonu — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Azerbaijani: qrammafon — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Azerbaijani: proiqrıvatel — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Belarusian: прайграва́льнік (prajhraválʹnik) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Belarusian: грамафо́н (hramafón) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Belarusian: патэфо́н (patefón) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Belarusian: фано́граф (fanóhraf) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Bengali: রেকর্ড প্লেয়ার (rekorḍo pleẏar) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Bengali: গ্রামোফোন (gramōphōn) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Betawi: mesin ngomong — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Bulgarian: грамофо́н (gramofón) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Bulgarian: фоногра́ф (fonográf) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Burmese: ဓာတ်စက် (dhatcak) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Catalan: tocadiscs — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Catalan: gramòfon — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Chinese Mandarin: 電唱機 /电唱机 (diànchàngjī) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Chinese Mandarin: 留聲機 /留声机 (liúshēngjī) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Chinese Mandarin: 唱機 /唱机 (chàngjī) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Czech: přehrávač — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Czech: gramofon — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Danish: pladespiller — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Danish: grammofon — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Dutch: platenspeler — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Dutch: grammofoon — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Dutch: pick-up — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Esperanto: diskoturnilo — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Esperanto: gramofono — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Estonian: grammofon — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Faroese: plátuspælari — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Faroese: grammofon — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Finnish: levysoitin — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Finnish: vinyylisoitin — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • French: électrophone — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • French: tourne-disque — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • French: phonographe — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • French: gramophone — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • French: pick-up — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Galician: tocadiscos — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Galician: gramófono — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Georgian: გრამაფონი (gramaponi) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Georgian: ფირფიტასაკრავი (pirpiṭasaḳravi) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • German: Plattenspieler — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • German: Grammophon — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • German: Schallplattenspieler — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Greek: πικάπ (pikáp) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Greek: γραμμόφωνο (grammófono) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Hebrew: נגן תקליטים (nagán taklitím) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Hebrew: גְּרָמוֹפוֹן (gramofón) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Hindi: ग्रामोफ़ोन (grāmofon) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Hindi: रिकॉर्ड प्लेयर (rikŏrḍ pleyar) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Hungarian: lemezjátszó — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Icelandic: fónn — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Icelandic: plötuspilari — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Indonesian: fonograf — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Indonesian: gramofon — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Italian: giradischi — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Italian: grammofono — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Japanese: 蓄音機 (chikuonki) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Japanese: レコードプレーヤー (rekōdo purēyā) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Kazakh: граммофон (grammofon) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Kazakh: ойнатқыш (oinatqyş) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Khmer: ម៉ាស៊ីនច្រៀង (maasɨn criəng) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Khmer: ថាលគមន៍ (thaalĕəʼkum) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Korean: 축음기 (chugeumgi) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Korean: 레코드플레이어 (rekodeupeulleieo) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Northern Kurdish: pîkap — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Northern Kurdish: fonograf — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Kyrgyz: ойноткуч (oynotkuc) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Kyrgyz: граммофон (grammofon) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Lao: ຫີບສຽງ (hīp sīang) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Latvian: gramofons — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Lithuanian: gramofonas — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Macedonian: грамофо́н (gramofón) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Malay: gramofon — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Malay: peti nyanyi — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Maltese: gramofown — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Maltese: grammofonu — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Marathi: ग्रामोफोन (grāmophon) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Marathi: रेकॉर्ड प्लेयर (rekŏrḍa pleyar) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Mongolian: пянз тоглуулагч (pjanz togluulagč) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Navajo: béésh hataałí — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Norwegian Bokmål: platespiller — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Norwegian Bokmål: platespeller — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Norwegian Bokmål: grammofon — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: platespelar — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Pashto: ګرافون (gerāfun) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Iranian Persian: گِرامافون (gerâmâfon) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Polish: adapter — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Polish: gramofon — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Portuguese: toca-discos — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Portuguese: gira-discos — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Portuguese: vitrola — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Portuguese: gramofone — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Romanian: pick-up — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Romanian: gramofon — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Russian: прои́грыватель (proígryvatelʹ) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Russian: электрофо́н (elektrofón) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Russian: граммофо́н (grammofón) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Russian: патефо́н (patefón) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Russian: фоно́граф (fonógraf) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Serbo-Croatian: грамо̀фо̄н — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Serbo-Croatian: gramòfōn — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Slovak: gramofón — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Slovak: prehrávač — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Slovene: predvajalnik — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Slovene: gramofon — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Spanish: tocadiscos — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Spanish: gramola — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Spanish: gramófono — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Spanish: picot — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Spanish: picó — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Swahili: gramafoni — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Swedish: skivspelare — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Swedish: grammofon — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Tajik: граммофон (grammofon) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Tajik: қартамонак (qartamonak) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Tajik: сафҳамонак (safhamonak) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Tausug: ulihim — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Thai: หีบเสียง (hìip-sǐiang) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Turkish: gramofon — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Turkish: fonograf — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Turkish: sesyazar — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Turkish: pikap — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Turkish: plakçalar — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Turkmen: grammofon — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Ukrainian: програва́ч (prohraváč) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Ukrainian: грамофо́н (hramofón) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Ukrainian: патефо́н (patefón) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Ukrainian: фоно́граф (fonóhraf) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Urdu: رِکارْڈ پِلیئَر (rikārḍ pilear) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Urdu: گِرامافون (girāmāfon) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Uzbek: proigrivatel — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Uzbek: grammofon — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Vietnamese: máy hát — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Welsh: chwaraewr recordiau — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Welsh: gramoffon — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Yiddish: גראַמאָפֿאָן (gramofon) — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records
  • Yoruba: giramafóònù — analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records