harmony
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Definition of harmony
40 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)Agreement or accord.
“December 4 2010, Evan Thomas, "Why It’s Time to Worry", in Newsweek 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.”
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noun
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(countable, uncountable)Agreement or accord.
“December 4 2010, Evan Thomas, "Why It’s Time to Worry", in Newsweek 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.”
- (countable, uncountable)A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
- (countable, uncountable)The academic study of chords.
- (countable, uncountable)Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
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(countable, uncountable)The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
“I did not know anything more about music,only about finger exercises, difficult tasks, contradictions in the theory of harmony, and tedious piano lessons from a sarcastic teacher who saw in my […]”
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(countable, uncountable)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”
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A female given name from Latin.
“Following this formula, Harmony Hammond chose an exhibition of her dark, potent, meaning-layered paintings to be complemented by the work of Haleh Niazmand.”
“Growing up in a family that included 12 brothers and sisters, Harmony James needed to find something that set her apart from the crowd. And boy did she succeed in that one.”
“For someone whose only acting experience was playing a Boy George lookalike in a high school production of the musical “The Wedding Singer,” Harmony Santana is having an incredible year. Ms. Santana is making her big-screen debut in Rashaad Ernesto Green’s coming-out drama “Gun Hill Road,” which had its premiere in January at the Sundance Film Festival.”
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A male given name from Latin.
“In other transfer news, Betar Jerusalem added Eran Levy, Haim Megrelashvili and Nigerian Harmony Ikande to its squad on Tuesday.”
“Indie filmmaker Harmony Korine is no stranger to the weird. He's built an outsider-cool reputation thanks to his early script for the '90s drama "Kids" and his later increasingly bizarre films "Gummo" (about trailer park Americana), […]”
“Michelle worked with producer Harmony Samuels on most of the songs on the album.”
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(slang, uncountable)The ship of characters Harry Potter and Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series.
“Oh that is bloody priceless, unfortunately I've seen some of the Harmony shippers' rants and that little piece of creative fiction could really be considered understating some of the reactions that were areound^([sic]) on some forums after the HBP release.”
“Did you see where that retarded fucker Emerson Spaz ^([sic]) "that the Harmony shippers were (and still are) delusional. It's Romione all the way!" […]”
“Others, who shipped, which is the internet's way of saying supported, Harmony (Harry and Hermione), claimed superiority over the Romione shippers, claiming they always knew whom the true pairing should have been.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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.
Words you can make from harmony
93 playable · top: MYNAH (13 pts)
Best play mynah 13 points6-letter words
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25 words3-letter words
38 words- HAY 9 pts
- HOY 9 pts
- YAH 9 pts
- HAM 8 pts
- HOM 8 pts
- MAY 8 pts
- MHO 8 pts
- OHM 8 pts
- YAM 8 pts
- YOM 8 pts
- ANY 6 pts
- HAO 6 pts
- HON 6 pts
- NAH 6 pts
- NAY 6 pts
- NOH 6 pts
- RAH 6 pts
- RAY 6 pts
- RHO 6 pts
- RYA 6 pts
- YAR 6 pts
- YON 6 pts
- ARM 5 pts
- MAN 5 pts
- MAR 5 pts
- MOA 5 pts
- MON 5 pts
- MOR 5 pts
- NAM 5 pts
- NOM 5 pts
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- RAM 5 pts
- ROM 5 pts
- ARO 3 pts
- NOR 3 pts
- OAR 3 pts
- ORA 3 pts
- RAN 3 pts
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