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ACCORDION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does accordion mean?
• ACCORDION (noun)
The noun ACCORDION has 1 sense:
1. a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player
Familiarity information: ACCORDION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
accordion; squeeze box
Hypernyms ("accordion" is a kind of...):
free-reed instrument (a wind instrument with a free reed)
keyboard instrument (a musical instrument that is played by means of a keyboard)
Meronyms (parts of "accordion"):
clavier; fingerboard; piano keyboard (a bank of keys on a musical instrument)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "accordion"):
piano accordion (an accordion with a right-hand keyboard)
button accordion (an accordion with buttons rather than keys)
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