Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Gramophone \Gram"o*phone\, n. [Gr. ? a thing drawn or written
   (fr. ? write) + -phone, as in telephone.]
   An instrument for recording, preserving, and reproducing
   sounds, the record being a tracing of a phonautograph etched
   in some solid material. Reproduction is accomplished by means
   of a system attached to an elastic diaphragm.

Source : WordNet®

gramophone
     n : an antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle
         is amplified acoustically [syn: {acoustic gramophone}]