Usually means: Percussion instrument with wooden bars.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. xylophone: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. xylophone: Merriam-Webster
  3. xylophone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. xylophone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. xylophone: Collins English Dictionary
  6. xylophone: Vocabulary.com
  7. Xylophone, xylophone: Wordnik
  8. xylophone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Xylophone: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. xylophone: Wiktionary
  11. xylophone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. xylophone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. xylophone: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. xylophone: Dictionary.com
  15. xylophone: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. xylophone: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Xylophone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Xylophone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. xylophone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. xylophone: Rhymezone
  21. xylophone, xylophone (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. xylophone: FreeDictionary.org
  23. xylophone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. xylophone: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. xylophone: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Xylophone: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops
  4. SimplyTheBest Music Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. xylophone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. xylophone: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. xylophone: The Folk File
  2. The Xylophone, xylophone: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See xylophones as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (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.
verb:  To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.
verb:  To move above a ridged surface or series of surfaces so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.

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