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Sony

proper nounnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈsəʊni//
  • Canada//ˈsoʊni//
  • Australia//ˈsəʉni//
  • New Zealand//ˈsɐʉni//

An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan.

proper noun

  1. 1

    An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan.

    he mostly makes videos—virtually reinventing the diary form with his Sony 8 scrapbook.

    Bernstein always understood this symphony, and his Sony recording was for many years one of the best.

    Gary’s roster currently has Tritt and two new Sony artists soon to be hugely famous, JEB and Christy Sutherland.

    Most of the e-mails were blowback from the departure of our divisional vice president, Crawford, who’d just jumped ship to Sony.

Etymology

A combination of Latin sonus (“sound”) and sonny (“boy”, diminutive).

noun

  1. 1

    A device produced by Sony.

    Connie Chung, the pretty Chinese CBS correspondent, occupied the room next to mine at the Hyatt House and she was always back by midnight, reciting a final sixty-second radio spot into her Sony or absorbing one last press release before getting a good night’s sleep.

    It’s not clear what the witch doctors are doing, but the scientists have been wandering the riverbank with their Sonys or Hitachis, playing the recorded chirpings of newly hatched crocodiles in hopes of either stirring maternal instinct in the (almost surely) female man-eater or tempting her to infanticidal cannibalism, which would be far more likely.

    My memoirs. At night I leave a Sony by my bed. Night is the best time for remembering.

    The common threads that exist between the fisherman and his Sony and the project above. Robert Smithson's 'Incidents of mirror travel in the Yucatan' are important.

Forms

plural
Sonys
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).