radio-gramophonen.
/ˌreɪdɪəʊˈɡraməfəʊn/, U.S. /ˌreɪdioʊˈɡræməˌfoʊn/ A radio and record player combined with a speaker (or speakers) in a single cabinet.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > record-playing equipment
phonograph1877
gramophone1887
Victrola1905
record player1913
box1916
radio phonograph1922
phono1925
Panatrope1926
radio-gramophone1927
radiogram1929
hi-fi1938
player1948
music centre1956
lo-fi1957
stereogram1958
gram1959
mid-fi1960
stereo1964
unit audio1966
wind-up1975
1927 Wireless World 19 Oct. 539/1 (heading) A combined radio-gramophone installation.
1935 Economist 23 Nov. 1042/1 Radio receiving sets and radio-gramophones had formed the largest part of the sales in the home markets.
1976 Broadcast 29 Nov. 19/1 Granny and her pre-war radiogramophone.
1983 M. Cox M. R. James xvii. 232 We had an idea that a radio-gramophone of the latest type might help a bit..during your convalescence.
2006 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 6 Sept. 2 Manufacturers soon realised that the gramophone and radio (and the radio gramophone) were more than the sum of their new-fangled parts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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