Definitions for accordion

accordion ac·cor·di·on

Spelling: [uh-kawr-dee-uh n]
IPA: /əˈkɔr di ən/

Accordion is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 333 anagrams from letters in accordion (accdinoor).

Definitions for accordion

noun

  1. Also called piano accordion. a portable wind instrument having a large bellows for forcing air through small metal reeds, a keyboard for the right hand, and buttons for sounding single bass notes or chords for the left hand.
  2. a similar instrument having single-note buttons instead of a keyboard.

adjective

  1. having a fold or folds like the bellows of an accordion:

verb (used with object)

  1. to demolish by crushing together lengthwise:

verb (used without object)

  1. (of a door, roof, or other covering) to open by folding back or pressing together in the manner of an accordion:
  2. to fold, crush together, or collapse in the manner of an accordion.

Origin of accordion

1831; German, now spelling Akkordion, Akkordeon name under which the instrument was patented in Vienna in 1829; probably French accord(er) or Italian accord(are) to harmonize (see Examples for accordion

Gunner Oke had strapped an accordion on top of his knapsack.

Ye can't foller a fiddle an' sing, ye got to hev a melodeon or accordion.

Papino, the white clown, reappears, now without his accordion.

We live in an accordion economy, as I'm not the first to say.

With that, the unknown displayed an accordion which was slung across his chest.

A straight-faced clown in severe white makeup begins picking out a tune on an accordion as more people trickle in to watch.

The Italian slipped his hands from the accordion and laid it aside.

Was not his accordion there to show that he possessed a regular means of livelihood?

He had skinny legs and bloated ribs fanning from his torso like an accordion strapped to his chest.

The questions presented by the lower folds in the accordion are economic and social.

Word Value for accordion
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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