1. an old-fashioned record player that uses a needle to play sounds recorded on flat discs
Usage: dated; chiefly British

Examples

• My grandmother still has her old gramophone in the attic.
• The antique gramophone played scratchy recordings from the 1920s.
• He wound up the gramophone and placed a vinyl record on the turntable.
• The museum displayed several gramophones from different eras.
• She collected vintage gramophones as a hobby.
• The gramophone’s horn amplified the sound without electricity.