Sony

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

Proper noun

  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. - 1993, Martha Gever, Pratibha Parmar, John Greyson, Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video, Routledge, →ISBN,...
    • Bernstein always understood this symphony, and his Sony recording was for many years one of the best. - 2002, Alexander J. Morin, Classical Music: The Listener's Companion, Backbeat Books, →ISBN, page 98:
    • Gary’s roster currently has Tritt and two new Sony artists soon to be hugely famous, JEB and Christy Sutherland. - 2003, Nadine Condon, Hot Hits, Cheap Demos: The Real-World Guide to Music Business Success, Backbeat...

Origin

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

Derived

Sonbie Sony pony

Noun

  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...
    • 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...
    • My memoirs. At night I leave a Sony by my bed. Night is the best time for remembering. - 1995, Victor J. Ramraj, Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Writing in English, Broadview Press, →ISBN, page 297:

Forms

Sonys