concertina en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˌkɒnsəˈtiːnə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌkɑnsɚˈtinə/ (US)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From concert + -ina.
Meanings
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A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.
That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.
1978, Jan Romein, The Watershed of Two Eras: Europe in 1900, page 303:
- Something multiply folded like a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together.
- Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle.
- A type of booklet label, consisting of up to 32 pages of booklet as an insert.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| concertinas | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
anglo concertina · concertina frame · concertina wire · concertinist · concertina book
Descendants
concertina · concertina · concertina
Hypernyms
Translations (34)
bg концертина (musical instrument) · pl koncertyna (something resembling the instrument) · sk koncertina (musical instrument) · ru концертина (musical instrument) · de Ziehharmonika (musical instrument) · lt koncertina (musical instrument) · it fisarmonica (musical instrument) · fr accordéon (musical instrument) · nl concertina (musical instrument) · pt concertina (musical instrument) · es concertina (musical instrument) · hy կոնցերտին (musical instrument) · ja アコーディオン式 (musical instrument) · da koncertina (musical instrument) · el κονσερτίνα (musical instrument) · tl konsertina (musical instrument) · ja コンサーティーナ (musical instrument) · lb Quëtsch (musical instrument) · cs koncertina (musical instrument) · sv concertina (musical instrument) · ca concertina (musical instrument) · mi kōriana (musical instrument) · he מפוחית יד (musical instrument) · mi whētuitui hokohoko (musical instrument) · de Konzertina (musical instrument) · tr konsertina (musical instrument) · pl koncertyna (musical instrument) · ga consairtín (musical instrument) · cmn 六角手風琴狀 /六角手风琴状 (musical instrument) · hu hatszögletű harmonika (musical instrument) · fi käsiharmonikka (musical instrument) · ko 콘서티나 (musical instrument) · fi haitari (something resembling the instrument) · es acordeón (musical instrument)