Xylophone
/ˈzaɪləˌfoʊn/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 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?"
- 2 a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets wordnet
Verb
- 1 To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.
- 2 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"
Example
More examples"Tom told me that he got his xylophone for free."
Etymology
From xylo- (“of wood”) + -phone (“sound”).