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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024har•mo•ny /ˈhɑrməni/USA pronunciation n., pl. -nies. - a state or condition of agreement, cooperation, or peacefulness;
accord:[uncountable]lived in harmony. - a consistent, orderly, or pleasing arrangement of parts: [uncountable]the beautiful harmony of color in that painting.[countable]the composer's beautiful harmonies in the last movement.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024har•mo•ny (här′mə nē),USA pronunciation n., pl. -nies. - agreement;
accord; harmonious relations. - a consistent, orderly, or pleasing arrangement of parts;
congruity. - Music and Dance
- any simultaneous combination of tones.
- the simultaneous combination of tones, esp. when blended into chords pleasing to the ear;
chordal structure, as distinguished from melody and rhythm. - the science of the structure, relations, and practical combination of chords.
- Music and Dance, Biblean arrangement of the contents of the Gospels, either of all four or of the first three, designed to show their parallelism, mutual relations, and differences.
- Greek harmonía joint, framework, agreement, harmony, akin to hárma chariot, harmós joint, ararískein to join together
- Latin harmonia
- Middle French
- Middle English armonye 1350–1400
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged concord, unity, peace, amity, friendship.
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged consonance, conformity, correspondence, consistency. See symmetry.
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged Harmony, melody in music suggest a combination of sounds from voices or musical instruments. Harmony is the blending of simultaneous sounds of different pitch or quality, making chords:harmony in part singing; harmony between violins and horns.Melody is the rhythmical combination of successive sounds of various pitch, making up the tune or air:a tuneful melody to accompany cheerful words.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: harmony /ˈhɑːmənɪ/ n ( pl -nies)- agreement in action, opinion, feeling, etc; accord
- order or congruity of parts to their whole or to one another
- agreeable sounds
- any combination of notes sounded simultaneously
- the vertically represented structure of a piece of music
Compare melody - the art or science concerned with the structure and combinations of chords
- a collation of the material of parallel narratives, esp of the four Gospels
Etymology: 14th Century: from Latin harmonia concord of sounds, from Greek: harmony, from harmos a joint |