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    ACCORDION

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the playerplay

    Synonyms:

    accordion; squeeze box

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting man-made objects

    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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