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View synonyms for music box

music box

noun

  1. a box or case containing an apparatus for producing music mechanically, as by means of a comblike steel plate with tuned teeth sounded by small pegs or pins in the surface of a revolving cylinder or disk.


music box

noun

  1. a mechanical instrument that plays tunes by means of pins on a revolving cylinder striking the tuned teeth of a comblike metal plate, contained in a box
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of music box1

First recorded in 1765–75
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Example Sentences

Our next stop was Culver City, where he gave me a music box that played “Edelweiss.”

There, in the Morris Museum’s collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata, is a music box from around 1877.

But the insistence on its importance — it shows up instrumentally, and in its vocal form, and even in a music box as a ballerina twirls around — struck me as a perfect précis for the film.

The woman shrugged, then retrieved a music box from a bottom shelf.

One features a character giving himself a shave, the daily task treated as if it’s a delicate dance atop a music box.

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