English Explanatory Dictionary

autophone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. idiophone
name
  1. A brand of coin-operated automatic phonographs with headphones, patented in 1930s.
  2. Several brands of telephones and phone services.
  3. A very early brand of table-top mechanical organette using a punched card to operate the music mechanism.

Word forms

autophone autophones

Etymology

From auto- + -phone.

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