Synonyms for
Keyboards
Definition
A keyboard is a set of keys or buttons that are used to operate a computer, typewriter, or musical instrument.
Synonyms & similar words
Synonyms by register
Formal
Informal
Common collocations
- computer keyboard
- piano keyboard
- type on the keyboard
- keyboard shortcuts
- keyboard layout
- keyboard cover
- keyboard player
- keyboard instrument
Word family
noun keyboard
Usage note
The word 'keyboard' can refer to both the input device for computers and musical instruments. Ensure context clarifies which is intended.
Example sentences
- I use the keyboard to type my homework.
- The piano has 88 keys on its keyboard.
- The computer keyboard has a QWERTY layout.
- I prefer to use a wireless keyboard with my computer.
- He is playing the keyboard in the band.
Quotes
The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind. -Maria Cristina Mena
I started writing with a typewriter when I was twenty-two. Much later in life I switched to a computer. But I remember feeling like a magician with a new magic trick when I first learned to type. -Susan Orlean
In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness. And God said, 'Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done.' And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. 'What is the purpose of all this?' he asked politely. 'Everything must have a purpose?' asked God. 'Certainly,' said man. 'Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this,' said God. And He went away. -Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.