German

Noun

Xylophone

1. plural of Xylophon

English

Noun

xylophone ‎(plural xylophones)

1. (music) 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?

Derived terms

References

• Vienna Symphony Orchestra. "Xylophone".

Translations

See also

• glockenspiel
• marimba
• vibraphone

Verb

xylophone ‎(third-person singular simple present xylophones, present participle xylophoning, simple past and past participle xylophoned)

1. To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.
2. To move above a ridged surface so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.

French

Etymology

From xylo- +‎ -phone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡzi.lɔ.fɔn/, /ksi.lɔ.fɔn/

Noun

xylophone m ‎(plural xylophones)

1. Xylophone.