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harmony
[ hahr-muh-nee ]
noun
- agreement; accord; harmonious relations.
Synonyms: friendship, amity, peace, unity, concord
- a consistent, orderly, or pleasing arrangement of parts; congruity.
Synonyms: consistency, correspondence, conformity, consonance
- Music.
- any simultaneous combination of tones.
- the simultaneous combination of tones, especially 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.
- an 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.
harmony
/ ˈhɑːmənɪ /
noun
- agreement in action, opinion, feeling, etc; accord
- order or congruity of parts to their whole or to one another
- agreeable sounds
- music
- any combination of notes sounded simultaneously
- 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
harmony
- The sounding of two or more musical notes at the same time in a way that is pleasant or desired. Harmony, melody, and rhythm are elements of music.
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- non·harmo·ny noun plural nonharmonies
- pre·harmo·ny noun
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
I had to play melody while simultaneously playing harmony with him.
As a young baby, her mother would sing her lullabies and “get totally freaked out” when she started singing them back in harmony.
Low-mass black holes “sing” in harmony with themselves, though with flashes of light instead of sound.
Soon cover versions were recorded by acts like Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Dope, and Rage Against the Machine.
He wanted peace and harmony, and in this respect he was just another Roman ruler interested in imperial unity.
They are so rich in harmony, so weird, so wild, that when you hear them you are like a sea-weed cast upon the bosom of the ocean.
Much later, in the case of all but gifted children, do the mysteries of harmony begin to take on definite form and meaning.
There was acute disharmony in the room, where a little time before there had been at least an outward show of harmony.
The little glimpse of domestic harmony which had been offered her, gave her no regret, no longing.
In harmony with a fundamental rule of law, a member who has once been acquitted cannot be tried again for the same offense.
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