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Sony
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sony Sonny sonny
English
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Etymology
A combination of en la sonus sound and en sonny boy diminutive.
Pronunciation
en /ˈsəʊni/ RP
en /ˈsoʊni/ GA,Canada
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Sony.wav US
en /ˈsəʉni/ AU
en /ˈsɐʉni/ NZ
en əʊni 2
Proper noun
en Q41187en trademark An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan.
en 1993 Martha Gever; Pratibha Parmar; John Greyson Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video 76 Routledge 041590742X he mostly makes videos—virtually reinventing the diary form with his Sony 8 scrapbook.
en 2002 Alexander J. Morin Classical Music: The Listener's Companion 98 Backbeat Books 0879306386 Bernstein always understood this symphony, and his Sony recording was for many years one of the best.
en 2003 Nadine Condon Hot Hits, Cheap Demos: The Real-World Guide to Music Business Success 34 Backbeat Books 0879307625 Gary’s roster currently has Tritt and two new Sony artists soon to be hugely famous, JEB and Christy Sutherland.
en 2006 Joseph Finder Killer Instinct St. Martin's Press, 0312347472 5 Most of the e-mails were blowback from the departure of our divisional vice president, Crawford, who’d just jumped ship to Sony.
Rishi Iyengar Google will stop making video games for its Stadia platform https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/01/tech/google-stadia-sge-shutdown 2021-02-01 Jade Raymond, the executive in charge of SG&E who previously worked at Sony (SNE), Electronic Arts (EA) and Ubisoft (UBSFF), will leave Google (GOOG) to “pursue other opportunities,” Harrison added. https://web.archive.org/web/20251008000142/https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/01/tech/google-stadia-sge-shutdown 8 October 2025
Derived terms
en Sonbie Sony pony
Descendants
ja ソニー 1
zh 索尼 1
zh 索尼 1
Translations
An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
Arabic: ar سُونِي f sōni
Bengali: bn সনি
Bulgarian: bg Со́ни m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 索尼 Suǒní
Estonian: et Sony
Finnish: fi Sony
French: fr Sony
Greek: el Σόνι
Hebrew: he סוני soni
Hindi: hi सोनी
Japanese: ja ソニー Sonī
Khmer: km សូនី Sonī
Korean: ko ^소니
Marathi: mr सोनी f
Persian: fa سونی soni
Polish: pl Sony n
Portuguese: pt Sony f
Russian: ru Со́ни m
Serbo-Croatian: sh Сони m
Spanish: es Sony
Thai: th โซนี่ sohnêe
Turkish: tr Sony
Urdu: ur سونی sonī
Noun
s
en deviceA device produced by Sony.
en 1980 Timothy Crouse The Boys on the Bus Ballantine Books, 0345270983 16 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.
en w:Peter Hathaway Capstick Death in a Lonely Land: More Hunting, Fishing, and Shooting on Five Continents New York, N.Y. St. Martin’s Press 1990 255 https://archive.org/details/deathinlonelylan0000caps/page/255/mode/1up 0-312-03810-0 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.
en 1995 Victor J. Ramraj Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Writing in English 297 Broadview Press 1551110253 My memoirs. At night I leave a Sony by my bed. Night is the best time for remembering.
en 1999 Peter Cook Archigram Princeton Architectural Press, 1568981945 113 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.
en w:Carl Hiaasen Diane Stevenson Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen New York, N.Y. w:Berkley Books 2001 2002 18 https://archive.org/details/paradisescreweds0000hiaa/page/18/mode/1up 0-425-18606-7 My personal choice would be to drag these vultures from their rental cars and gently disassemble their Sonys.
en Bill Sharpsteen Dirty Water: One Man’s Fight to Clean Up One of the World’s Most Polluted Bays Berkeley, Calif. w:University of California Press 2010 54 https://archive.org/details/dirtywateroneman0000shar/page/54/mode/1up 978-0-520-25660-6 He also figured more and more people got their current events from television, and so he put most of his effort into soliciting the unwashed masses who sat bug-eyed before their Sonys.
Translations
device produced by Sony
German: de Sony m n f
Further reading
Anagrams
en nosy Noys Yons nosy noys syno syon
German
de:
Pronunciation
de /ˈzoːni/ /ˈsoːni/ /ˈsɔʊ̯ni/ the intermediate form probably being the most common
Proper noun
n
de Sony Q41187
Noun
m:n:f,,(s)
de Sony device
Usage notes
The gender typically mirrors that of the implied common noun; for example, der Sony for a TV because of de Fernseher m.
Portuguese
pt:
Etymology
pt :ubor en:Sony + 1
Pronunciation
Sô*ni
pt ɔni õni Brazil 2
Proper noun
f
pt Sony Q41187