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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player [syn: accordion, piano accordion, squeeze box]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: German Akkordion, from Akkord chord, from French accord, from Old French acord Date: 1831 a portable keyboard wind instrument in which the wind is forced past free reeds by means of a hand-operated bellows • accordionist noun II. adjective Date: 1884 folding or creased or hinged to fold like an accordion <an accordion pleat> <an accordion door>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a portable musical instrument with reeds blown by bellows and played by means of keys and buttons. Phrases and idioms: accordion pleat, wall , etc. one folding like the bellows of an accordion. Derivatives: accordionist n. Etymology: G Akkordion f. It. accordare to tune

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Accordion Ac*cor"di*on, n. [See Accord.] (Mus.) A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(accordions) An accordion is a musical instrument in the shape of a fairly large box which you hold in your hands. You play the accordion by pressing keys or buttons on either side while moving the two sides together and apart. Accordions are used especially to play traditional popular music. N-COUNT