The word "headphone" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a noun to refer to a pair of headphones, and as a verb to describe the act of listening to something through headphones. Example sentence: "I always use headphones when I'm studying so that I'm not distracted by household noise."
The album: Jungle What we said: "It all runs very smoothly – perhaps too smoothly for some tastes – but listen past the sheen and the headphone goods are there.
When a call comes in on his mobile phone, it would automatically pause the music (or gunfire) on the headphones and, after a confirming press on a headphone button, switch to the incoming caller.When the commuter arrives at the office or home, the network around him would reconfigure itself.
LondonSIR – Your article jogged me out of my headphone slumber.
While he tries to sell his firm's strait-laced productivity tools, in black and grey, to corporate purchasing managers, his old company, Sony, is generating enviable buzz with a cool purple PDA that plays videos and has a headphone jack.
Jeremy Andrus, a young chief executive, has recently taken Skullcandy, a headphone company, public for $125m.
A headphone may be equipped with one earphone or two and may include a miniature microphone, in which case it is called a headset.
Headphone, small loudspeaker (earphone) held over the ear by a band or wire worn on the head.
In 2014 Apple made its largest acquisition by buying the headphone manufacturer and music-streaming company Beats for $3 billion.
Apple's riding high in the world of music right now, but it may face a backlash from customers if the rumoured ditching of the usual 3.5mm headphone jack in new iPhones goes ahead.
All for the cost of a few hundred free headphones – considerably cheaper than, say, the £64m that the fellow headphone maker and Olympics sponsor Panasonic paid.
The new headphone jack means that gamers can plug headsets straight into the consoler itself.
