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 Definitions of harmony  [ˈhɑr mə ni]  

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Definition of 'harmony' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) harmony
agreement; accord; harmonious relations.

2.  harmony
a consistent, orderly, or pleasing arrangement of parts; congruity.

3.  harmony
any simultaneous combination of tones.

4.  harmony
the simultaneous combination of tones, esp. when blended into chords pleasing to the ear; chordal structure, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.

5.  harmony
the science of the structure, relations, and practical combination of chords.

6.  harmony
an arrangement of the contents of the Gospels, either of all four or of the first three, designed to show their parallelism and differences.

Etymology:  (1350–1400; ME armonye < MF < L harmonia < Gk harmonía joint, framework, harmony)

Definition of 'harmony' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) harmony, harmoniousness
compatibility in opinion and action

2. (noun) harmony, musical harmony
the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords

3. (noun) harmony, concord, concordance
a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole

4. (noun) harmony, concord, concordance
agreement of opinions

5. (noun) harmony
an agreeable sound property


Definition of 'harmony' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) harmony
a situation of peace, happiness, and agreement
the dream that people can live in harmony

2.  harmony
in music, a combination of notes that sound pleasant together
beautiful harmonies


Definition of 'harmony' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) harmony
the just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things, or things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between the different parts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe

2. (noun) harmony
concord or agreement in facts, opinions, manners, interests, etc.; good correspondence; peace and friendship; as, good citizens live in harmony

3. (noun) harmony
a literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency; as, a harmony of the Gospels

4. (noun) harmony
a succession of chords according to the rules of progression and modulation

5. (noun) harmony
the science which treats of their construction and progression

6. (noun) harmony
see Harmonic suture, under Harmonic


Translation of 'harmony' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: (of musical sounds, colours etc) (the state of forming) a pleasing combination
The singers sang in harmony.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: harmonie Arabic flag Arabic: إنْسِجام Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: хармония
Brazilian flag Brazilian: harmonia Czech flag Czech: souzvuk German flag German: der Einklang
Danish flag Danish: harmoni Greek flag Greek: αρμονία Spanish flag Spanish: armonía
Estonian flag Estonian: harmoonia Farsi flag Farsi: هماهنگی Finnish flag Finnish: harmonia
French flag French: harmonie Hebrew flag Hebrew: הַרמוֹניָה Hindi flag Hindi: सहस्वरता, सुस्वरता
Croatian flag Croatian: harmonija, uskladenost Hungarian flag Hungarian: harmónia Indonesian flag Indonesian: harmoni
Icelandic flag Icelandic: samhljómur Italian flag Italian: armonia Japanese flag Japanese: 和声
Korean flag Korean: 화성 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: harmonija, darnumas Latvian flag Latvian: harmonija; saskaņa
Malay flag Malay: harmoni Dutch flag Dutch: harmonie Norwegian flag Norwegian: harmoni, samklang
Polish flag Polish: harmonia, zgodność Persian flag Persian: هماهنگی Pashto flag Pashto: سم والى، برابوالى،هم غاړت
Portuguese flag Portuguese: harmonia Romanian flag Romanian: armonie Russian flag Russian: гармоничность
Slovak flag Slovak: súzvuk Slovenian flag Slovenian: ubranost Serbian flag Serbian: harmonija
Swedish flag Swedish: harmoni, samklang, vällju Thai flag Thai: การประสานเสียง Turkish flag Turkish: armoni; ses ahengi
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 和聲,色彩搭配和諧 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: гармонія Urdu flag Urdu: سروں کا مترنم مجموعہ
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: sự hài hoà; sự hoà âm Chinese flag Chinese: 和谐

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