Recorder

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dÉ™(ɹ)

From Anglo-Norman recordour, from Old French recordeor, from Medieval Latin recordātor, from Latin recordor ("call to mind, remember, recollect"), from re- ("back, again") + cor ("heart; mind").

Full definition of recorder

Noun

1. An apparatus for recording; a device which records.
2. Agent noun of record; one who records.
3. A judge in a municipal court.

Derived terms

• magnetic recorder
• recordership
• tape recorder
• wire recorder

From Middle English, from record ("to practice (music)")

Noun

1. (musici) A musical instrument of the woodwind family, fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute.

Anagrams

• re-record, rerecord