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