accordion
A box-shaped musical instrument played by compressing or expanding its bellows while pressing its buttons or its keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel (reeds).
Other meanings
A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents.
Something, or set of things (concepts, etc), which can be expanded (or extended) and collapsed, like the musical instrument's pleated, folding bellows.
Synonyms
- squeeze box
A kind of
- free-reed instrument
- keyboard instrument
Kinds of accordion
- piano accordion
- button accordion
Related words
- diatonic button accordion
- accordion fold
- accordionesque
- accordionlike
- accordion file
- accordion pleat
- accordionist
- Cajun accordion
- button accordion
- accordion blind
- piano accordion
Word history
From Italian "accordare" (to tune).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “accordion” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.