English Explanatory Dictionary

harmony

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Agreement or accord.
  2. A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
  3. The academic study of chords.
  4. Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
  5. The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
  6. A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.
name
  1. A female given name from Latin.
  2. A male given name from Latin.
  3. A number of places in Canada:
  4. A community in Rocky View County, Alberta.
  5. A community in Colchester County, Nova Scotia.
  6. A hamlet in Perth South, Perth County, Ontario.
  7. A community in North Dundas, United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario.
  8. A number of places in the United States:
  9. An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Arkansas.
  10. An unincorporated community in San Luis Obispo County, California.
  11. An unincorporated community in Osceola County, Florida.
  12. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Illinois.
name
  1. The ship of characters Harry Potter and Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series.

Pronunciation

/ˈhɑː.mə.ni/ /ˈhɑ̟ɹ.mə.ni/ en-us-harmony.ogg /ˈhäː.mə.ni/ /ˈhɐ̞ː.mə.ni/

Word forms

harmony harmonies

Etymology

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, “to fit together”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to join, fit, fix together”). First attested in 1602. Doublet of harmonia.

Synonyms

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Derived words

close harmony consonant harmony disharmony guitarmony harmolodics harmonic harmonics harmonious harmoniphone harmonism harmonist Harmonite disharmonize disharmonise harmonizability harmonisability harmonizable harmonisable harmonization harmonisation harmonizer harmoniser harmonizingly harmonisingly reharmonize reharmonise unharmonized unharmonised harmonize harmonise harmonogram harmonograph harmony of the spheres harmony of vowels imitative harmony inharmonious inharmony negative harmony nonharmony philharmonic poly-harmony polyharmony pre-established harmony preestablished harmony synharmony telharmony unharmony vowel harmony xenharmony New Harmony
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