Sony

Etymology

 * A combination of Latin sonus (the root of English sonic/sound) and sonny, a familiar term for a boy used in 1950s America.

Proper noun

 * 1) An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan.
 * 2) * 1980, Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus, Ballantine Books, ISBN 0345270983, page 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.
 * 1) * 1993, Martha Gever, Pratibha Parmar, and John Greyson, Queer Looks, Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video, Routledge, ISBN 041590742X, page 76
 * he mostly makes videos—virtually reinventing the diary form with his Sony 8 scrapbook.
 * 1) * 1995, Victor J. Ramraj, Concert of Voices, An Anthology of World Writing in English, Broadview Press, ISBN 1551110253, page 297
 * My memoirs. At night I leave a Sony by my bed. Night is the best time for remembering.
 * 1) * 1999, Peter Cook, Archigram, Princeton Architectural Press, ISBN 1568981945, page 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.
 * 1) * 2002, Alexander J. Morin, Classical Music, The Listener's Companion, Backbeat Books, ISBN 0879306386, page 98
 * Bernstein always understood this symphony, and his Sony recording was for many years one of the best.
 * 1) * 2003, Nadine Condon, Hot Hits, Cheap Demos, The Real-World Guide to Music Business Success, Backbeat Books, ISBN 0879307625, page 34
 * Gary’s roster currently has Tritt and two new Sony artists soon to be hugely famous, JEB and Christy Sutherland.
 * 1) * 2006, Joseph Finder, Killer Instinct, St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312347472, page 5
 * Most of the e-mails were blowback from the departure of our divisional vice president, Crawford, who’d just jumped ship to Sony.

Translations

 * Arabic: سوني
 * Bengali: সনি
 * Bulgarian: Сони
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: Σόνι
 * Hebrew: סוני


 * Hindi: सोनी
 * Japanese: ソニー
 * Korean: 소니
 * Russian: Сони
 * Serbo-Croatian: Сони
 * Thai: โซนี่
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: سونی

Anagrams

 * nosy
 * syon

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