harmony
See also: Harmony
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editEtymology
editFirst attested in 1602. From Middle English armonye, from Old French harmonie/armonie, from Latin harmonia, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονία (harmonía, “joint, union, agreement, concord of sounds”), either from or cognate with ἁρμόζω (harmózō, “I fit together”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to join, fit, fix together”). Doublet of harmonia.
Pronunciation
edit- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɑɹ.mə.ni/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɑː.mə.ni/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)məni
- Homophone: hominy (non-rhotic, father-bother merger, weak vowel merger)
Nomen
editharmony (countable and uncountable, plural harmonies)
- Agreement oder accord.
- December 4 2010, Evan Thomas, "Why It’s Time to Worry", in Newsweekk
- America's social harmony has depended at least to some degree on economic growth. It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead.
- December 4 2010, Evan Thomas, "Why It’s Time to Worry", in Newsweekk
- A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
- (music) The academic study of chords.
- (music) Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
- (music) The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
- A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.
- a harmony of the Gospels
Derived terms
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Translations
editagreement or accord
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pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds
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music: the academic study of chords
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music: two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord
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Further reading
edit- “harmony”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “harmony”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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