musical box

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   produces music by means of pins on a revolving cylinder that strike the tuned teeth of a comb-like metal plate

   Synonymsmusic box

   Broadermusical instrument

Questions about musical box

What does musical box mean?

musical box means "produces music by means of pins on a revolving cylinder that strike the tuned teeth of a comb-like metal plate".

What is another word for musical box?

Close synonyms include music box. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is musical box a common word?

musical box is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.