harmony

A2
US /ˈhɑ̟ɹ.mə.ni/ UK /ˈhɑː.mə.ni/
noun name Freq #6296

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    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.

  2. 2
    noun

    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 […]

  3. 3
    noun

    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

  4. 4
    name

    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.

  5. 5
    name

    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.

  6. 6
    name

    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.

  7. 7
    noun

    compatibility in opinion and action

  8. 8
    noun

    an agreeable sound property

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.

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Thesaurus

Synonyms
6 name · the ship of characters... h/hh/hr
7 noun · compatibility in opinion... harmoniousness
Word family
Derived forms disharmonisedisharmonizedisharmonyguitarmonyharmolodicsharmonicharmonicsharmoniousharmoniphoneharmonisabilityharmonisableharmonisation

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