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Meaning
Noun
●
In Musical instruments & Percussion instruments:
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.
Verb
●
To
play
a
xylophone
or to
play
something else
as though
it was a
xylophone
.
●
To
move
above a
ridged
surface
so as to
hit
every
ridge
,
in a manner
similar
to
playing
quickly
and
sequentially
on a xylophone.
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Origin
xylophone
English
-phone
English
φωνή
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
xylo-
English
ξύλον
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Sourced from
Etym
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