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What is another word for transistor radio?

Pronunciation: [tɹanzˈɪstə ɹˈe͡ɪdɪˌə͡ʊ] (IPA)

Transistor radios were once the popular choice for music aficionados in the early years of the 20th century. The term transistor radio is often associated with portable electronic radio devices, however, there are numerous synonyms for them. These synonyms include "pocket radio," "portable radio," "handheld radio," "transistorized radio," "table radio," and "boombox." While these devices were the precursor to modern-day radios and audio devices, they undoubtedly revolutionized the music industry. With greater portability and ease of use, transistor radios were instrumental in the democratization of music, allowing people to enjoy music anywhere, anytime. Today, these radios are still widely used, and despite being overshadowed by newer technology, they remain an important cultural icon.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

  • Other hypernyms:

    electronic device, radio, communication device, portable device, audio device, entertainment device.

Famous quotes with Transistor radio

  • My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.
    Robert Palmer
  • I don’t listen to anything on the radio but NPR and occasional oldies programs. I can’t comment on the content or format of most commercial radio but I have read the statistics about the step-by-step deregulation of FCC rules that has allowed monopolies like Clear Channel to buy up massive shares of the airwaves. This has damaged our business (music) and our culture (American). The internet is offering bold alternatives but a transistor radio is only $25.00 and not everyone is hooked up through a computer and high speed connection.
    Natalie Merchant
  • She looked down a slope, needing to squint for the sunlight, onto a vast sprawl of houses which had grown up all together, like a well-tended crop, from the dull brown earth; and she thought of the time she’d opened a transistor radio to replace a battery and seen her first printed circuit. The ordered swirl of houses and streets, from this high angle, sprang at her now with the same unexpected, astonishing clarity as the circuit card had. Though she knew even less about radios than about Southern Californians, there were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate. There’d seemed no limit to what the printed circuit could have told her (if she had tried to find out); so in her first minute of San Narciso, a revelation also trembled just past the threshold of her understanding.
    Thomas Pynchon

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