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单词 euphony
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Definition of euphony in English:

euphony

nounPlural euphonies ˈjuːf(ə)niˈjufəni
mass noun
  • 1The quality of being pleasing to the ear.

    the poet put euphony before mere factuality
    Example sentencesExamples
    • How much steam-piston euphony survived the voyage from Australia is vague, since Englishmen regularly mispronounced the town to rhyme with ‘stagger’.
    • One doubts, nevertheless, whether a newly elected pontiff would weigh the relative euphony that a name might command in various languages.
    • Let us leave the sweet euphony of Bangla to our poets, and the salvation-enhancement of Sanskrit to our priests.
    • In a musical climate where beauty is often disregarded or located in asymmetrical euphony, bands like Kepler are clinging to an older and more concrete conception of beauty - one that hinges on order, balance, and tradition.
    • I would listen to the euphonies of life and the sobriety of earth beleaguering me.
    • That hands-on style brought an integrity and euphony to the lifetime written record of his creative, illuminating and vivifying mind.
    • A man who wrote wondrously for the ear was surely not seduced by the euphony of her name, but they fell in love and she stuck to him over the years through many a scrape.
    • While the advent of TV may have eclipsed the romance of radio, as he puts it, much of the sheen and euphony one used to note and hear in yester-year's music is regretfully found absent in the present-day menu.
    • It still fulfilled prescribed ecclesiastical functions, but its euphony and its expressive power showed the way toward artistic autonomy.
    • He employs a wide variety of tonal registers and often emphasizes dissonance or euphony in particular verses by varying the intensity of speed and volume while reading.
    • Actually, my aunt had done nothing of the sort, but I like the substance as well as the euphony; it has verisimilitude, doesn't it?
    • It's been a long time since a politician offered such euphoria over euphony in political commentary.
    • The eclectic mix of trance, tabla and the violin euphony left the raving party animals craving for more.
    • This encompasses random and fairly meaningless collections of words which have a certain euphony.
    • Greenfield's self-making depends neither on euphonies nor on arguments, but on a counterpoint of sentences, a music of grammar (as in, for example, Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns).
    • Soft voices whisper place names and dates, invoking memory and history just as the choreography suggests the euphony of physical connections, of reasons for momentum and impetus.
    • These bizarre screeching sounds turn into horn samples, which, though they never quite resolve themselves, manage to work up an atmosphere of a nauseated euphony.
    • ‘Americanism’, incidentally, is one of my least favourite words: not for the meaning, the concept is marvelous, but for its lack of euphony.
    • The mosque, however, continues to be used by Muslims, adding to the beautiful euphony of sounds that echo daily as the faithful are called to prayer.
    • One of the big joys of this production, after the divine euphony of Kremer's sound, is the return to the eleven-instrument orchestration of Piazzolla's original score.
    Synonyms
    softness, mellowness, sweetness, sweet sound, sweet tone, prettiness, silveriness, mellifluousness, melodiousness, musicality, lilt, lyricism, harmony
    1. 1.1 The tendency to make phonetic change for ease of pronunciation.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Meanwhile, in the English-speaking world Ukraina was no longer the Ukraine, but Ukraine, a change recommended neither by history, etymology, or euphony.

Derivatives

  • euphonic

  • adjective juːˈfɒnɪkjuˈfɑnɪk
    • Although opener ‘Pressure Drop’ begins with a hint of sparky, Sea and Cake-style discordance, it blooms into a gloriously euphonic chorus of ringing guitars and viola swoops spread lavishly with Archer's bedhead vocals.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Other euphonic nuggets such as ‘Sign Lily Sign’ and ‘She's a Nut’ serve as equivocal eardrum delight.
      • Nor is euphonic language the ultimate criterion for a Constitution.
      • It makes me worry about the translations of Anglo-Saxon poems which he includes, for as I am ignorant of that language I depend upon him to be accurate if not euphonic.
      • Both of my sisters changed their names on marriage, their husbands having much more euphonic surnames, even although the younger one emerged from the womb reading The Female Eunuch.
  • euphonize

  • verb ˈjuːfənʌɪzˈjufəˌnaɪz
    [with object]
    • Make euphonious or pleasing to the ear.

      anything played inside is euphonized by the acoustics of the structure
      Anything played inside the Silo is euphonized, made beautiful, by the acoustics of the structure.

Origin

Late Middle English: from French euphonie, via late Latin from Greek euphōnia, from euphōnos 'well sounding' (based on phōnē 'sound').

 
 

Definition of euphony in US English:

euphony

nounˈjufəniˈyo͞ofənē
  • 1The quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words.

    the poet put euphony before mere factuality
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I would listen to the euphonies of life and the sobriety of earth beleaguering me.
    • The mosque, however, continues to be used by Muslims, adding to the beautiful euphony of sounds that echo daily as the faithful are called to prayer.
    • That hands-on style brought an integrity and euphony to the lifetime written record of his creative, illuminating and vivifying mind.
    • ‘Americanism’, incidentally, is one of my least favourite words: not for the meaning, the concept is marvelous, but for its lack of euphony.
    • Greenfield's self-making depends neither on euphonies nor on arguments, but on a counterpoint of sentences, a music of grammar (as in, for example, Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns).
    • While the advent of TV may have eclipsed the romance of radio, as he puts it, much of the sheen and euphony one used to note and hear in yester-year's music is regretfully found absent in the present-day menu.
    • One doubts, nevertheless, whether a newly elected pontiff would weigh the relative euphony that a name might command in various languages.
    • Soft voices whisper place names and dates, invoking memory and history just as the choreography suggests the euphony of physical connections, of reasons for momentum and impetus.
    • In a musical climate where beauty is often disregarded or located in asymmetrical euphony, bands like Kepler are clinging to an older and more concrete conception of beauty - one that hinges on order, balance, and tradition.
    • Let us leave the sweet euphony of Bangla to our poets, and the salvation-enhancement of Sanskrit to our priests.
    • These bizarre screeching sounds turn into horn samples, which, though they never quite resolve themselves, manage to work up an atmosphere of a nauseated euphony.
    • The eclectic mix of trance, tabla and the violin euphony left the raving party animals craving for more.
    • He employs a wide variety of tonal registers and often emphasizes dissonance or euphony in particular verses by varying the intensity of speed and volume while reading.
    • Actually, my aunt had done nothing of the sort, but I like the substance as well as the euphony; it has verisimilitude, doesn't it?
    • It's been a long time since a politician offered such euphoria over euphony in political commentary.
    • This encompasses random and fairly meaningless collections of words which have a certain euphony.
    • One of the big joys of this production, after the divine euphony of Kremer's sound, is the return to the eleven-instrument orchestration of Piazzolla's original score.
    • It still fulfilled prescribed ecclesiastical functions, but its euphony and its expressive power showed the way toward artistic autonomy.
    • A man who wrote wondrously for the ear was surely not seduced by the euphony of her name, but they fell in love and she stuck to him over the years through many a scrape.
    • How much steam-piston euphony survived the voyage from Australia is vague, since Englishmen regularly mispronounced the town to rhyme with ‘stagger’.
    Synonyms
    softness, mellowness, sweetness, sweet sound, sweet tone, prettiness, silveriness, mellifluousness, melodiousness, musicality, lilt, lyricism, harmony
    1. 1.1 The tendency to make phonetic change for ease of pronunciation.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Meanwhile, in the English-speaking world Ukraina was no longer the Ukraine, but Ukraine, a change recommended neither by history, etymology, or euphony.

Origin

Late Middle English: from French euphonie, via late Latin from Greek euphōnia, from euphōnos ‘well sounding’ (based on phōnē ‘sound’).

 
 
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