English Explanatory Dictionary

accordion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A box-shaped musical instrument played by compressing or expanding its bellows while pressing its buttons or its keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel (reeds).
  2. A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents.
  3. Something, or set of things (concepts, etc), which can be expanded (or extended) and collapsed, like the musical instrument's pleated, folding bellows.
verb
  1. To fold up, in the manner of an accordion

Pronunciation

/əˈkɔː.diː.ən/ [əˈkɔː.dɪi̯.ən] ~ [əˈkɔː.dɪi̯.n̩] /əˈkoɹ.di.ən/ [əˈkoɹ.dɪi̯.ən] ~ [əˈkoɹ.dɪi̯.n̩] /əˈkɔɹ.di.ən/ [əˈkɔɹ.dɪi̯.ən] ~ [əˈkɔɹ.dɪi̯.n̩] en-us-accordion.ogg

Word forms

accordion accordions accordeon accordioning accordioned

Etymology

Etymology tree Vulgar Latin *accordāre Old French acorder Middle French accorder French accorder French accordbor. German Akkord German -ion German Akkordeonbor. English accordion First attested in 1831. Borrowed from German Akkordeon, from Akkord (“harmony”), from French accord, from Old French acorder, based on Italian accordare (“to tune”). See also accord.

Related words

bandoneon concertina

Derived words

accordion blind accordionesque accordion file accordion fold accordionist accordionlike accordion pleat button accordion diatonic button accordion piano accordion

Translations

Afrikaans: akkordeon Afrikaans: trekklavier Albanian: fizarmonikë Southern Altai: кагас комыс Amharic: አኮርዲዮን Arabic: أَكُورْدِيُون Armenian: ակորդեոն Asturian: acordión Azerbaijani: akkordeon Basque: akordeoi Basque: eskusoinu Belarusian: акардэо́н Bengali: অ্যাকর্ডিয়ন Bengali: বাদ্যযন্ত্রবিশেষ Breton: akordeon Bulgarian: хармо́ника Bulgarian: акордео́н Burmese: အကော်ဒီယံ Catalan: acordió Chinese Cantonese: 手風琴 /手风琴 Chinese: 手風琴 /手风琴 Chinese Mandarin: 手風琴 /手风琴 Wu Chinese: 手風琴 /手风琴 Czech: akordeon Czech: harmonika Danish: trækharmonika Danish: harmonika Danish: akkordeon Dutch: accordeon Dutch: harmonica Esperanto: akordiono Estonian: akordion Estonian: lõõtspill Faroese: harmonika Finnish: harmonikka Finnish: haitari Finnish: hanuri French: accordéon Galician: acordeón Georgian: აკორდეონი German: Akkordeon German: Ziehharmonika German: Handharmonika German: Handorgel German: Quetsche German: Quetschkommode German: Schifferklavier Greek: ακορντεόν Hebrew: אָקּוֹרְדִּיּוֹן Hindi: अकॉर्डियन Hungarian: harmonika Hungarian: tangóharmonika Ido: akordeono Indonesian: akordeon Interlingua: accordion Irish: cairdín Irish: acordán Italian: fisarmonica Japanese: アコーデオン Japanese: 手風琴
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