headphonesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From head +‎ phones.

名詞

headphones pl (normally plural, singular headphone)

1. A pair of cushioned speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound.

   Synonyms: cans (slang), heads

   Circumaural headphones enclose the ear, supra-aural headphones rest on the ear's surface, and earbuds are placed inside the ear.

   • 1995, “Headphones”, in Post, performed by Björk:

     My headphones / They saved my life / Your tape / It lulled me to sleep

   • 2005, Richard Corliss, Time, Profile of A.R. Rahman:

     Toward the end of the film Nazu rushes into her bedroom, clamps on headphones and listens to the technopoppy "I Wanna Be Free." The picturization shows her moving convulsively, desperately to the funky beat, turning ever more agitated, until we wonder what she wants to be free from: free from her domestic vise, or free from life?

   • 2021 May 31, Alexandra Marvar, “The New Detectorists”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Detectorists may also carry headphones, a metal detecting shovel, hand tools such as a hori-hori (a serrated, steel hand shovel), a “finds pouch,” and a hand-held precision detector called a pinpointer.

参考

• headphone
• earbud
• earphones
• earpiece
• headset

Further reading

• Headphones (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “headphones”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.