Definitions for harmony
ˈhɑr mə nihar·mo·ny

Princeton's WordNet(3.60 / 5 votes)Rate this definition:

1. harmony, harmoniousness(noun)

   compatibility in opinion and action

2. harmony, musical harmony(noun)

   the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords

3. harmony, concord, concordance(noun)

   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. harmony, concord, concordance(noun)

   agreement of opinions

5. harmony(noun)

   an agreeable sound property

Wiktionary(4.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. harmony(Noun)

   agreement or accord

2. harmony(Noun)

   a pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds

3. harmony(Noun)

   the academic study of chords

4. harmony(Noun)

   two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord

5. harmony(Noun)

   the relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously

Origin: First attested in 1602. From armonye, from harmonie/armonie, from harmonia, from ἁρμονία

Webster Dictionary(4.25 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Harmony(noun)

   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. Harmony(noun)

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

3. Harmony(noun)

   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. Harmony(noun)

   a succession of chords according to the rules of progression and modulation

5. Harmony(noun)

   the science which treats of their construction and progression

6. Harmony(noun)

   see Harmonic suture, under Harmonic

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Harmony

   här′mo-ni, n. a fitting together of parts so as to form a connected whole, agreement in relation: in art, a normal state of completeness and order in the relations of things to each other: (mus.) a simultaneous combination of accordant sounds: the whole chordal structure of a piece, as distinguished from its melody or its rhythm: concord, music in general: a collation of parallel passages regarding the same event arranged to demonstrate the substantial unity—as of the Gospels.—Harmony, or Music, of the spheres, a harmony formed by the regular movements of the heavenly bodies throughout space, determined by the relation to each other of the intervals of separation; Pre-established harmony, the designation of Leibnitz for his theory of the divinely established relation between body and mind—the movements of monads and the succession of ideas, as it were a constant agreement between two clocks. [Fr.,—L.,—Gr. harmonia—harmos, a fitting—arein, to fit.]

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. HARMONY

   From the Grk. _arnumi_, strain. Hence, full of strains.

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British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'harmony' in Nouns Frequency: #2494

How to pronounce harmony?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of harmony in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of harmony in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of harmony in a Sentence

1. Katsushika Hokusai:

   It's not about beauty, it's about harmony.

2. Dejan Stojanovic:

   Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.

3. Richard Yu:

   Harmony OS is completely different from Android and iOS.

4. Doug Floyd:

   You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.

5. Albert Einstein:

   God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

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