pho·no·graph (f??n?-gr?f?)n. A machine that reproduces sound by means of a stylus in contact with a grooved rotating disk.pho?no·graph?ic adj.pho?no·graph?i·cal·ly adv.American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.phonograph (?f??n???r??f; -??ræf) n1. (Music, other) an early form of gramophone capable of recording and reproducing sound on wax cylinders2. (Music, other) Also called: gramophone or record player US and Canadian a device for reproducing the sounds stored on a record: now usually applied to the nearly obsolete type that uses a clockwork motor and acoustic hornCollins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014pho?no?graph (?fo? n??græf, -?gr?f) n. any sound-reproducing machine using records in the form of cylinders or grooved disks. [1877] Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.